From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:40:14 GMT
Subject: Re: "fatal error in commit_refs" from pushing to github
Message-ID: <20160908184014.l4g6if2gke6i3yjj@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DW1-EsfgGkbnD3LgiygAu2JV9vs_8e+oQbenXERUA6hw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:03:33PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> > 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