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Re: git-svn problems with branches containing spaces

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Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date
Jul 10, 2007, 13:42 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0200, Ewald, Robert wrote:
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> 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.

Thanks, Gerrit.
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  1. Ewald, RobertJun 27, 2007
  2. Gerrit PapeJul 10, 2007
  3. Jan HudecJul 10, 2007
  4. Eric WongJul 11, 2007

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