Re: [bug] git-clone over ssh fails when repository has local commits

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 6, 2008, 16:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20080406161120.GB24358@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1caff7430804060645s764f24f8y3d07ee8647ec8f25@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 02:45:22PM +0100, seventh guardian wrote:

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>  $ git-clone ssh://<host>/<path>
> Initialized empty Git repository in <path>/.git/
> Password:
> remote: Counting objects: 132468, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25543/25543), done.
> remote: Total 132468 (delta 107355), reused 130574 (delta 105466)
> Receiving objects: 100% (132468/132468), 42.12 MiB | 4161 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (107355/107355), done.
> error: Trying to write ref REMOTE_HEAD with nonexistant object
> f7a51afd56964cb0f10178353315d2680832ea54
> fatal: Cannot update the ref 'REMOTE_HEAD'.
> Warning: Remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

It sounds like your remote repository has a bogus HEAD that points to a non-existent object. Can you ssh to <host> and confirm that you can do a "git show HEAD" in the remote repo?

-Peff