Re: Git --reference bug(?)
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
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- Oct 19, 2011, 05:01 UTC
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On 10/19/2011 12:04 AM, Andrea Gelmini wrote:
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> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> /tmp/3.1 --reference /home/gelma/dev/kernel/linus/
> Cloning into /tmp/3.1...
> fatal: Reference has invalid format: 'refs/tags/3.1.1.1^{}'
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedlyThe upstream repo reports what look like non-reference references:
$ git ls-remote --tags git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git | head 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c refs/tags/v2.6.11 c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a refs/tags/v2.6.11^{} 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c refs/tags/v2.6.11-tree c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a refs/tags/v2.6.11-tree^{} 26791a8bcf0e6d33f43aef7682bdb555236d56de refs/tags/v2.6.12 9ee1c939d1cb936b1f98e8d81aeffab57bae46ab refs/tags/v2.6.12^{} 9e734775f7c22d2f89943ad6c745571f1930105f refs/tags/v2.6.12-rc2 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 refs/tags/v2.6.12-rc2^{} 0397236d43e48e821cce5bbe6a80a1a56bb7cc3a refs/tags/v2.6.12-rc3 a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb refs/tags/v2.6.12-rc3^{} [...]
I've never seen this format before; is this the remote protocol for peeled refs or maybe the behavior of an old version of git?
Michael
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