Hi, Larry Finger wrote: > I had my system freeze when doing a pull from Linus's repo. Since then, > every pull results in the following errors: > > ~> git pull > error: unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success > From git://github.com/torvalds/linux > ! [new tag] v3.1-rc8 -> v3.1-rc8 (unable to update local ref) Could you try pulling again with "/path/to/git/sources/bin-wrappers/git pull" after applying this patch? Thanks, diff --git i/refs.c w/refs.c index a615043b..b15f78a4 100644 --- i/refs.c +++ w/refs.c @@ -493,12 +493,15 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int * char *buf; int fd; - if (--depth < 0) + if (--depth < 0) { + errno = ELOOP; return NULL; + } git_snpath(path, sizeof(path), "%s", ref); /* Special case: non-existing file. */ if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) { + int saved_errno = errno; struct ref_list *list = get_packed_refs(NULL); while (list) { if (!strcmp(ref, list->name)) { @@ -509,6 +512,7 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int * } list = list->next; } + errno = saved_errno; if (reading || errno != ENOENT) return NULL; hashclr(sha1); @@ -562,7 +566,8 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int * *flag |= REF_ISSYMREF; } if (len < 40 || get_sha1_hex(buffer, sha1)) - return NULL; + die("ref %s is corrupt: length=%d, content=%.*s", ref, + (int) len, (int) len, buffer); return ref; } -- 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