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Re: Corruption: empty refs/heads in otherwise filled repo: cannot clone?

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 30, 2008, 10:10 UTC
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Jan Wielemaker <J.Wielemaker@uva.nl> writes:
> I'm a bit puzzled. I have a bare repository, somehow without any files
> in refs/heads.

Do you have .git/packed-refs file? How do you have gc.packrefs set ("git config --get gc.packrefs")? What are the git version on the clients that have trouble accessing repository, and what protocol (transport merhod) do they use: "file", http(s)/ftp, git, ssh?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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