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

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2007, 06:54 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580706062354g5b19e4b8x43d211f634a8583b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070607063158.GA2809@muzzle>

On 6/7/07, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:

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> James Peach <jamespeach@mac.com> wrote:
> > 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"?  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....
>

fwiw: a similar error occurs when a svn tag-/branchname contains spaces. The culprit seems to be $self->refname in

		command_noisy('update-ref', '-m', "r$rev",
		              $self->refname, $commit);

in rev_db_set()

-- larsh