On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Marko Vukovic <amasniko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I get this error after running "git commit" > > error: Object 42504431bac2e2054483c1bbc35f1b535f8d11bb is a tag, not a commit > Segmentation fault (core dumped) Can you get the stack trace? Does HEAD point to 42504431bac2e2054483c1bbc35f1b535f8d11bb (iow what does "git rev-parse HEAD" say). > "git cat-file -p 42504431bac2e2054483c1bbc35f1b535f8d11bb" gives this: > > object 1b9a97613307b5c7bbc189a0e41506cb1534740a > type commit > tag v1.0 > tagger marko <marko@bib> Sun Aug 14 20:42:12 2011 -0400 > > The first release If HEAD does point to 42504431, I think you can do "git reset 1b9a976133" to reset the HEAD back to a commit object (as oppose to a tag) But please backup the repository somewhere, I'm still not sure how you get into this situation. The repo may help. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html