# remove broken refloc

1 messages from 2009-10-22 to 2009-10-22. Participants: Tobias Richter.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21326

## Tobias Richter, 2009-10-22 16:57

Subject: remove broken refloc
Message-ID: <20091022165715.GE30266@cave.achos.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20091022165715.GE30266%40cave.achos.com

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Hi,

>From using git-svn I've imported a (git-wise) broken reference. This isn't 
a huge problem, as I don't need that ref anyway. But 'git gc' no longer
works and that results in frequent errors when updating:

$ git gc
error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/release_7.5.'
error: failed to run reflog

As far as I understand I could expire that ref, but that fails as well:

$ git reflog expire --expire=0 --all
error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/release_7.5.'

Is there a way to forcefully remove that broken ref?

Then I may be able to stop git-svn from re-importing that using the config,
I hope.

Thanks,

Tobias

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