From: Mathieu Malaterre Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:15:12 GMT Subject: Re: error: refs/tags/2.0.9 does not point to a valid object! Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <23120755.523391.1287433903205.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Stephen Bash wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mathieu Malaterre" >> To: git@vger.kernel.org >> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 3:23:57 PM >> Subject: error: refs/tags/2.0.9 does not point to a valid object! >> >> I am trying to convert a SVN repository to GIT. >> >> The filter ran for a couple of hours. But after the conversion I get >> the following: >> >> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/bla/.git/ >> remote: Counting objects: 59368, done. >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25408/25408), done. >> remote: Total 59368 (delta 43461), reused 44204 (delta 33809) >> Receiving objects: 100% (59368/59368), 14.40 MiB | 14.27 MiB/s, done. >> Resolving deltas: 100% (43461/43461), done. >> error: refs/tags/2.0.9 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.8 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.7 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.6 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.5 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.4 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.16 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.15 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.14 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.13 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.12 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.11 does not point to a valid object! >> error: refs/tags/2.0.10 does not point to a valid object! >> >> Could someone please let me know what I am doing wrong in my script >> in filter-branch. > > Yep, I ran into the exact same problem.  Short answer, move/remove the refs/original directory before cloning, and the issue should go away. > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/8/20/37441 > > There was also a proposed test case: > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/9/7/39119 This was indeed the problem. Just a simple rm -rf .git/refs/original/* and original issue is gone. Thank you so much ! -- Mathieu