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Re: "fatal error in commit_refs" from pushing to github

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 8, 2016, 18:40 UTC
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:03:33PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
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> > So this is really an internal failure at the ref-update stage. There
> > _should_ be a reasonable error message, but I think "fatal error in
> > commit_refs" is the generic last-ditch fallback. I'll pass this along to
> > people in charge of that code, as we should be generating a more useful
> > error message.
> 
> Hmm.. I'm interested in this because the "fix" is from client side. I
> did "git gc" and "git fetch" and the problem was gone.

It may also have been a transient error inside GitHub that resolved itself between your two pushes.

-Peff
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