Gerrit Pape <pape@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0200, Ewald, Robert wrote: > > As I have reported yesterday on IRC, git-svn has problems with branches > > containing spaces. > > I get the following message, when I want to clone from the repository > > containing a branch with a space. > > Cloning until the revision the branch is created everything works fine. > > > > fatal: refs/remotes/Modbus Error Limit Fix: cannot lock the ref > > update-ref -m r1897 refs/remotes/Modbus Error Limit Fix > > ff0819c8e9c97c24e9865bc868c503fd9b64f980: command returned error: 128 > > > > Thanks for your help. > > Hi, the same problem has been reported some time ago through > http://bugs.debian.org/430518 > > There's a patch attached to the report, but from a first glance, I don't > think it's the solution. That patch is definitely not a correct solution. If another branch came along with the same name as an automatically renamed one, it would break things badly. I started working on a patch that allowed the user to interactively specify replacement branch names, but never got around to finishing it: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/45651 -- 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
