James Peach <jamespeach@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > > >James Peach <jamespeach@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I'm new to git, and I'm experimenting with using git-svn to interact > >>with a large SVN repository with lots of branches. > >> > >>I initially did an init like this: > >> > >>git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk svn+ssh://server/svn/ > >>project > >> > >>Then I did a git-svn fetch, which started pulling all the branches. > >>After a while, however, it hit a branch that it couldn't pull: > >> > >>Found branch parent: (tags/project-92~9) > >>767f1f1601a4deae459c99ea6c1d1b9ba8f57a65 > >>Following parent with do_update > >>... > >>Successfully followed parent > >>fatal: refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9: cannot lock the ref > >>update-ref -m r13726 refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9 > >>950638ff72acc278156a0d55baafbabb43f2b772: command returned error: 128 > >> > >>Some amount of searching failed to turn up any hints on what this > >>error means or how I can work around it. I'd appreciate any > >>advice ... > > > >Is there a tag actually named "project-92~9"? > > unfortunately, there's more than one tag with this naming convention :( > > > If so, it's > >an invalid branch name for git. I started working on a way > >around it by mapping new names to it, but haven't gotten around to > >finishing it.... > > Aha! I don't really need 90% of the tags - is there a way I can tell > the "git-svn fetch" not to bother with particular tags? You can manually add fetch = foo:bar lines in the [svn-remote "svn"] section of your .git/config file. See the one for trunk. Then remove the tags= wildcard config line. -- Eric Wong - 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
