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fast-import error: fatal: 'refs/heads/master' - not a valid ref

Subject: fast-import error: fatal: 'refs/heads/master' - not a valid ref

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4 messages between Aug 8, 2012 and Aug 9, 2012.

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Andrey Pavlenko· Aug 8, 2012, 07:25 UTC · lore

Hi all,

I'm developing a remote helper which uses the fast-import stream for fetching. When I perform cloning git prints error message - "fatal: 'refs/heads/master' - not a valid ref", however the clonning completes normally. Each my fast-import commit command starts with "commit refs/heads/master" header.

What does this error message mean and how can I fix it?

Jeff King· Aug 8, 2012, 17:54 UTC · re: Andrey Pavlenko · lore

Re: fast-import error: fatal: 'refs/heads/master' - not a valid ref

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:25:02AM +0400, Andrey Pavlenko wrote:

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> I'm developing a remote helper which uses the fast-import stream for
> fetching. When I perform cloning git prints error message - "fatal:
> 'refs/heads/master' - not a valid ref", however the clonning completes
> normally. Each my fast-import commit command starts with "commit
> refs/heads/master" header.
> 
> What does this error message mean and how can I fix it?

What version of git are you using? The only command which produces that exact message is "git show-ref", and it is not called by current versions of the cloning process (but it used to be in old versions).

-Peff

Andrey Pavlenko· Aug 9, 2012, 08:22 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: fast-import error: fatal: 'refs/heads/master' - not a valid ref

git --version git version 1.7.11.3

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:25:02AM +0400, Andrey Pavlenko wrote:
>
>> I'm developing a remote helper which uses the fast-import stream for
>> fetching. When I perform cloning git prints error message - "fatal:
>> 'refs/heads/master' - not a valid ref", however the clonning completes
>> normally. Each my fast-import commit command starts with "commit
>> refs/heads/master" header.
>>
>> What does this error message mean and how can I fix it?
>
> What version of git are you using? The only command which produces that
> exact message is "git show-ref", and it is not called by current
> versions of the cloning process (but it used to be in old versions).
>
> -Peff

Andrey Pavlenko· Aug 9, 2012, 08:42 UTC · re: Andrey Pavlenko · lore

Re: fast-import error: fatal: 'refs/heads/master' - not a valid ref

My helper really executes git show-ref before writting the export stream... Thank you for pointing that out and sorry for disturbing.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Andrey Pavlenko <andrey.a.pavlenko@gmail.com> wrote:

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> git --version
> git version 1.7.11.3
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:25:02AM +0400, Andrey Pavlenko wrote:
>>
>>> I'm developing a remote helper which uses the fast-import stream for
>>> fetching. When I perform cloning git prints error message - "fatal:
>>> 'refs/heads/master' - not a valid ref", however the clonning completes
>>> normally. Each my fast-import commit command starts with "commit
>>> refs/heads/master" header.
>>>
>>> What does this error message mean and how can I fix it?
>>
>> What version of git are you using? The only command which produces that
>> exact message is "git show-ref", and it is not called by current
>> versions of the cloning process (but it used to be in old versions).
>>
>> -Peff