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git gc error - cannot lock ref 'RENAMED-REF..1'

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ESEugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 1, 2010, 17:37 UTC
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I was running git gc weekly on my machine and today for some reason it failed on one of my repos with an error saying

Error: cannot lock ref ‘RENAMED-REF..1’
Error: failed to run ref-log

The problem is I have no idea what it is talking about… “git show-ref” doesn’t show anything even close to this name. Fools day joke?;) Any advice?

Thanks in advance, Eugene

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