From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:02:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Repairing fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref (git checkout of svn remote)
Message-ID: <20081006140243.GB8203@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2008.10.06.14.00.57.104051@yahoo.com>

Jeff Kowalczyk <jtk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> To test a particular upstream revision, on a git svn remote checkout (i.e.
> branches/1.2, 76c7af2...), I checked out the equivalent of HEAD^^ (git
> checkout 4a3d99c0c9).
> 
> Now back at the branch tip, I get fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref
> on git svn rebase: 
> 
> (4a3d99c...) $ git checkout 76c7af2
> HEAD is now at 76c7af2... Minor changes to CONTRIBUTORS
> (76c7af2...) $ git svn rebase
> fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref Current branch HEAD is up to date.
> Segmentation fault
> 
> How can I manually correct ref HEAD?

git checkout whateverbranchyouwereonbefore
git svn rebase

-- 
Shawn.