Re: bug report, error : Unable to find 000000000.....

From: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2007, 12:53 UTC
Message-ID: <45E6CCDD.2090502@linux.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xei0xwk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> The repository is seriously broken.  If you try wget to see
> refs/tags/* files, you will find out that they are not even
> tags; they are symrefs and both point at the master branch.
> 
> I do not think the Porcelain-ish shipped with git creates symref
> in refs/tags/, so it was done by somebody playing with symbolic-ref
> by hand perhaps?
> 
> I'd suggest James to do delete these bogus refs/tags/* files and
> tag the correct commit with "git tag".

The above does explain the breakage. The script that created snapshot tarballs for ipwraw was written was copying .git/HEAD to the tag name in .git/refs/tags... at some point .git/HEAD changed from being an actual symlink to master to being a normal file containing 'ref: refs/heads/master'

I believe I have fixed it now.

Thanks, James