# git-svn: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'. 4 messages from 2010-02-09 to 2010-02-12. Participants: Tzafrir Cohen, Tay Ray Chuan. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22591 ## Tzafrir Cohen, 2010-02-09 21:39 Subject: git-svn: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'. Message-ID: <20100209213929.GL3599@xorcom.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100209213929.GL3599%40xorcom.com ``` 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. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir ``` ## Tzafrir Cohen, 2010-02-10 17:07 Subject: Re: git-svn: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'. Message-ID: <20100210170757.GZ3599@xorcom.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100210170757.GZ3599%40xorcom.com In-Reply-To: <20100209213929.GL3599@xorcom.com> ``` Small update, On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:39:29PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 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. 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? > > Please CC your replies to me as I don't actively follow this list. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir ``` ## Tay Ray Chuan, 2010-02-11 08:36 Subject: Re: git-svn: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/be6fef0d1002110036g2b13616bud0aa7c1a0cbcdb1e%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20100209213929.GL3599@xorcom.com> ``` Hi, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Is there a way for me to skip some tags? I can avoid that specific tag. have you tried --ignore-paths? -- Cheers, Ray Chuan ``` ## Tzafrir Cohen, 2010-02-12 14:41 Subject: Re: git-svn: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'. Message-ID: <20100212144119.GS3599@xorcom.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100212144119.GS3599%40xorcom.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:36:51PM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Is there a way for me to skip some tags? I can avoid that specific tag. > > have you tried --ignore-paths? 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). -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir ```