Hello, I'm trying to maintain a mirror of a repo that is published with gerrit. The repo contains a "funny ref" with name 'refs/tags/xyz/...' . When I clone the repo the ref is correctly ignored: > git clone --mirror ssh://server:29418/repo Cloning into bare repository 'repo.git'... error: * Ignoring funny ref 'refs/tags/xyz/...' locally remote: Counting objects: 58263, done remote: Finding sources: 100% (58263/58263) remote: Total 58263 (delta 40882), reused 58131 (delta 40882) Receiving objects: 100% (58263/58263), 16.10 MiB | 163.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (40882/40882), done. Checking connectivity... done. When I try to update the mirror, however, the command fails: > git remote update Fetching origin error: * Ignoring funny ref refs/tags/xyz/...' locally >From ssh://server:29418/repo ! [new tag] xyz/... -> xyz/... (unable to update local ref) error: Could not fetch origin Doing a fetch also fails: > git fetch --all Fetching origin error: * Ignoring funny ref 'refs/tags/xyz/...' locally >From ssh://server:29418/repo ! [new tag] xyz/... -> xyz/... (unable to update local ref) error: Could not fetch origin If I force not to update the tags, then the command is successful: > git fetch --all -n Fetching origin error: * Ignoring funny ref 'refs/tags/xyz/...' locally I believe the problem is due to the fact that in function find_non_local_tags() in file builtins/fetch.c the refs are directly obtained from the transport and not filtered for funny entries. A check as this one: if (check_refname_format(ref->name, 0)) continue; fixes the problem for me. I report here bug and fix in the hope it can be reviewed and integrated in future git releases. Best regards, Lorenzo Keller -- 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