From: James Peach Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:07:02 GMT Subject: Re: git-svn "cannot lock ref" error during fetch Message-ID: <3AF13F38-11FE-429A-890C-36352A703D18@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20070609200650.GD32225@muzzle> On Jun 9, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > James Peach wrote: >> On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Eric Wong wrote: >> >>> James Peach 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. that worked really well, thanks a lot!