git-svn: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'.

Hi

I'm using git-svn for watching over SVN repositories in svn.asterisk.org . The largest one there is http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk .

This worked fine up until recently. I was using Debian Stable with Git 1.5.6 .

Recently I upgraded my system to Debian Testing with Git 1.6 (I currently have 1.6.6.1-1). Today I tried to update the repository (git svn rebase --fetch-all) and got the following error:

  fatal: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'.

IIRC it followed an automatic garbage-collection in the repository.

I decided to re-clone the SVN repository (I was planning on doing that for quite some time, with a proper AUTHORS file this time. But it's a repo of some 200,000 revisions and takes a few days to clone)

I eventually got the same error.

The specific revision that triggered it:

  http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=revision&revision=47394

Should git-svn mangle SVN tag names to be legal git ref names? Or just panic before it makes the git repo invalid?

Is there a way for me to skip some tags? I can avoid that specific tag.

Please CC your replies to me as I don't actively follow this list.

Small update,

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:39:29PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

Here's one that did not work:

$ git svn clone -s --ignore-paths='^/tags/autotag_for_.$' http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk

I again stress that git-svn manages to fetch a faulty repository. Another sub-question is: how do I remove that faulty reference git-svn added?

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> wrote:

have you tried --ignore-paths?

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:36:51PM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:

Sorry for the late reply. I don't follow this list (please CC me replies).

Yes, I tried. See my other response in this thread. No luck so far. I guess the next thing to try would be to ignore all of those autotags (even though they are somewhat useful).