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Git fast-import : Warning duplicated ref: refs/remotes/origin/master

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JNJérémie NIKAES <jeremie.nikaes@gmail.com>
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May 29, 2011, 16:09 UTC
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Hi, I am currently working on the git-mediawiki gateway project. This project uses fast-import to get data from mediawiki. For each revision from mediawiki, we generate a chunk of fast-export stream looking like this :

commit refs/remotes/origin/master mark :<int> commiter <user> <address> <timestamp> +0000 data <sizeofcomment> <comment> M 644 inline <title>.wiki data <sizeoffile> <content>

At the end of a git clone mediawiki::http://ourwikitest, everything looks perfectly fine, including the git log, but a "Warning duplicated ref: refs/remotes/origin/master" is thrown. And indeed, it is duplicated in .git/packedrefs

A git gc solves everything, but I wondered if there was a way to fix this or if this was a known bug.

Thank you, Regards,

-- Jérémie Nikaes

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