Re: git-svn "cannot lock ref" error during fetch

> James Peach <jamespeach@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
>>
>>> James Peach <jamespeach@mac.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to git, and I'm experimenting with using git-svn to  
>>>> interact
>>>> with a large SVN repository with lots of branches.
>>>>
>>>> I initially did an init like this:
>>>>
>>>> git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk svn+ssh://server/svn/
>>>> project
>>>>
>>>> Then I did a git-svn fetch, which started pulling all the branches.
>>>> After a while, however, it hit a branch that it couldn't pull:
>>>>
>>>> Found branch parent: (tags/project-92~9)
>>>> 767f1f1601a4deae459c99ea6c1d1b9ba8f57a65
>>>> Following parent with do_update
>>>> ...
>>>> Successfully followed parent
>>>> fatal: refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9: cannot lock the ref
>>>> update-ref -m r13726 refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9
>>>> 950638ff72acc278156a0d55baafbabb43f2b772: command returned error:  
>>>> 128
>>>>
>>>> Some amount of searching failed to turn up any hints on what this
>>>> error means or how I can work around it. I'd appreciate any
>>>> advice ...
>>>
>>> Is there a tag actually named "project-92~9"?
>>
>> unfortunately, there's more than one tag with this naming  
>> convention :(
>>
>>> If so, it's
>>> an invalid branch name for git.  I started working on a way
>>> around it by mapping new names to it, but haven't gotten around to
>>> finishing it....
>>
>> Aha! I don't really need 90% of the tags - is there a way I can tell
>> the "git-svn fetch" not to bother with particular tags?
>
> You can manually add fetch = foo:bar lines in the [svn-remote "svn"]
> section of your .git/config file.  See the one for trunk.  Then
> remove the tags= wildcard config line.