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Re: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*'

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Nicolas Bock <nbock@lanl.gov>
Date
Jun 17, 2008, 14:22 UTC
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This is what I get:

$ git show-ref a4995ae293fd95697a643cd3ea45585ecc38a19d refs/heads/ACT 3378ccb42c22740b7fcc240ffa0e4f798b8acf1f refs/heads/master 78e33155a0ab4ab0acba4c64758681fe99f1c5ca refs/heads/nick ef66b3aa74b8c1edb55161e01a99dee7cf9edaa3 refs/remotes/origin/* 3378ccb42c22740b7fcc240ffa0e4f798b8acf1f refs/remotes/origin/master

in what sense is this ref "bogus"? Is it syntactically incorrect?
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:41 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Nicolas Bock wrote:
> 
> > > $ git gc
> > > error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*'
> > > error: failed to run reflog
> 
> This is a bogus ref name.  Hrm.  Can you look with "git show-ref" if you 
> have (by some funny accident) an invalid ref there?
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
> 
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  1. Nicolas BockJun 16, 2008
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  4. Nicolas BockJun 17, 2008
  5. Johan HerlandJun 17, 2008
  6. Nicolas BockJun 17, 2008
  7. Jakub NarebskiJun 17, 2008
  8. Nicolas BockJun 17, 2008
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