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Re: unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 3, 2011, 04:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20111003044045.GA17289@elie>
In-Reply-To
<4E8936F4.5060506@lwfinger.net>
Larry Finger wrote:
> After applying that patch, I get
>
> finger@larrylap:~/linux-2.6> ~/git/git pull
> fatal: ref refs/tags/v3.1-rc8 is corrupt: length=41, content=
Great, thanks.

In the short term I'd suggest just removing the corrupt .git/refs/tags/v3.1-rc8 file with "rm" so it can be fetched again. Hopefully later tonight I can prepare a real patch to fix this, though I wouldn't mind if someone else takes care of it first.

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