Issue fetching tags error: unable to find eb03b... ; git fsck shows no problem...

From: James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 7, 2011, 16:14 UTC
Message-ID: <CACyv8dcTi0pG_GPvxD1zoTf6iRG81KbaY43FA-pbxYJz2UVJcQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I've got an error I can't seem to resolve. Fsck reports both my repositories are OK, but git fetch --tags tells me it can't find an object.

bash:jamesb:xl-cbga-20:32867> git --version
git version 1.7.6
bash:jamesb:xl-cbga-20:32864> git remote add old_tags ../old_tags/
bash:jamesb:xl-cbga-20:32865> git fetch old_tags
From ../old_tags
* [new branch]      master     -> old_tags/master
...
bash:jamesb:xl-cbga-20:32866> git fetch --tags old_tags
remote: Counting objects: 33613, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11778/11778), done.
remote: Total 33529 (delta 18473), reused 30013 (delta 15779)
Receiving objects: 100% (33529/33529), 28.59 MiB | 8.06 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (18473/18473), completed with 17 local objects.
error: unable to find eb03ba0f40fb2b6a3287036d851d2506e4ea4f8f
fatal: object eb03ba0f40fb2b6a3287036d851d2506e4ea4f8f not found

git fsck --full shows no errors in old_tags. git show eb03ba0f40fb2b6a3287036d851d2506e4ea4f8f in old_tags seems to work:

commit eb03ba0f40fb2b6a3287036d851d2506e4ea4f8f
Author: (no author) <(no author)@e3bda1c8-b8c7-484d-b8f9-8c0514bc73ff>
Date:   Tue Oct 10 09:44:47 2006 +0000

   This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag 'releases/3_2_0-5'.

   git-svn-id: svn://eng-cbga-2/tools/eclipse/tags/releases/3_2_0-5@39
e3bda1c8-b8c7-484d-b8f9-8c0514bc73ff

diff --git a/org.eclipse.cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.isv/reference/api/allclasses-frame.html
b/org.eclipse.cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.isv/reference/api/
allclasses-frame.html
...


Any ideas how to resolve this?

Cheers,
James