It is quite possible for, say, a remote HEAD to become broken, e.g. when the default branch was renamed. We should still be able to pack our objects when such a thing happens; simply ignore broken symrefs (because they cannot matter for the packing process anyway). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- reachable.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/reachable.c b/reachable.c index 9cff25b..64289f3 100644 --- a/reachable.c +++ b/reachable.c @@ -25,9 +25,15 @@ static void update_progress(struct connectivity_progress *cp) static int add_one_ref(const char *path, const struct object_id *oid, int flag, void *cb_data) { - struct object *object = parse_object_or_die(oid->hash, path); struct rev_info *revs = (struct rev_info *)cb_data; + struct object *object; + if ((flag & REF_ISSYMREF) && (flag & REF_ISBROKEN)) { + warning("ref is broken: %s", path); + return 0; + } + + object = parse_object_or_die(oid->hash, path); add_pending_object(revs, object, ""); return 0; -- 2.5.3.windows.1.3.gc322723 -- 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