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

From: James Peach <jamespeach@mac.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2007, 15:37 UTC
Message-ID: <6C4E89FC-CE40-4A76-A297-E0AB7A1F2F75@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070607063158.GA2809@muzzle>

On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Eric Wong wrote:

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> 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?