From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:42:35 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn problems with branches containing spaces
Message-ID: <20070710134236.2870.qmail@986bac8bfff25d.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F225D5F64550C4AA5F23286244275D4298C84@srvkrsexc07.nov.com>

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.

Thanks, Gerrit.