Re: Git --reference bug(?)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 19, 2011, 06:21 UTC
Message-ID: <7vpqhtec2n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E9E59A7.7070307@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

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> On 10/19/2011 12:04 AM, Andrea Gelmini wrote:
>> 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 unexpectedly
>
> The 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?

This should be very well documented and has been the output from fairly early days of ls-remote.