From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:40:55 GMT
Subject: Re: unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success
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.