# git-svn "cannot lock ref" error during fetch 6 messages from 2007-06-06 to 2007-06-13. Participants: James Peach, Eric Wong, Lars Hjemli. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8472 ## James Peach, 2007-06-06 17:17 Subject: git-svn "cannot lock ref" error during fetch Message-ID: <50C9688F-9C62-43AC-A84D-D84561671BAC@mac.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/50C9688F-9C62-43AC-A84D-D84561671BAC%40mac.com ``` Hi all, I'm new to git, and I'm experimenting with using git-svn to interact with a large SVN repository with lots of branches. I initially did an init like this: git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk svn+ssh://server/svn/project Then I did a git-svn fetch, which started pulling all the branches. After a while, however, it hit a branch that it couldn't pull: Found branch parent: (tags/project-92~9) 767f1f1601a4deae459c99ea6c1d1b9ba8f57a65 Following parent with do_update ... Successfully followed parent fatal: refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9: cannot lock the ref update-ref -m r13726 refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9 950638ff72acc278156a0d55baafbabb43f2b772: command returned error: 128 Some amount of searching failed to turn up any hints on what this error means or how I can work around it. I'd appreciate any advice ... James ``` ## Eric Wong, 2007-06-07 06:31 Subject: Re: git-svn "cannot lock ref" error during fetch Message-ID: <20070607063158.GA2809@muzzle> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070607063158.GA2809%40muzzle In-Reply-To: <50C9688F-9C62-43AC-A84D-D84561671BAC@mac.com> ``` James Peach wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to git, and I'm experimenting with using git-svn to interact > with a large SVN repository with lots of branches. > > I initially did an init like this: > > git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk svn+ssh://server/svn/project > > Then I did a git-svn fetch, which started pulling all the branches. > After a while, however, it hit a branch that it couldn't pull: > > Found branch parent: (tags/project-92~9) > 767f1f1601a4deae459c99ea6c1d1b9ba8f57a65 > Following parent with do_update > ... > Successfully followed parent > fatal: refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9: cannot lock the ref > update-ref -m r13726 refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9 > 950638ff72acc278156a0d55baafbabb43f2b772: command returned error: 128 > > Some amount of searching failed to turn up any hints on what this > error means or how I can work around it. I'd appreciate any advice ... Is there a tag actually named "project-92~9"? If so, it's an invalid branch name for git. I started working on a way around it by mapping new names to it, but haven't gotten around to finishing it.... -- Eric Wong ``` ## Lars Hjemli, 2007-06-07 06:54 Subject: Re: git-svn "cannot lock ref" error during fetch Message-ID: <8c5c35580706062354g5b19e4b8x43d211f634a8583b@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8c5c35580706062354g5b19e4b8x43d211f634a8583b%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20070607063158.GA2809@muzzle> ``` On 6/7/07, Eric Wong wrote: > James Peach wrote: > > update-ref -m r13726 refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9 > > 950638ff72acc278156a0d55baafbabb43f2b772: command returned error: 128 > > > > Some amount of searching failed to turn up any hints on what this > > error means or how I can work around it. I'd appreciate any advice ... > > Is there a tag actually named "project-92~9"? If so, it's > an invalid branch name for git. I started working on a way > around it by mapping new names to it, but haven't gotten around to > finishing it.... > fwiw: a similar error occurs when a svn tag-/branchname contains spaces. The culprit seems to be $self->refname in command_noisy('update-ref', '-m', "r$rev", $self->refname, $commit); in rev_db_set() -- larsh ``` ## James Peach, 2007-06-07 15:37 Subject: Re: git-svn "cannot lock ref" error during fetch Message-ID: <6C4E89FC-CE40-4A76-A297-E0AB7A1F2F75@mac.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/6C4E89FC-CE40-4A76-A297-E0AB7A1F2F75%40mac.com In-Reply-To: <20070607063158.GA2809@muzzle> ``` On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > James Peach wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm new to git, and I'm experimenting with using git-svn to interact >> with a large SVN repository with lots of branches. >> >> I initially did an init like this: >> >> git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk svn+ssh://server/svn/ >> project >> >> Then I did a git-svn fetch, which started pulling all the branches. >> After a while, however, it hit a branch that it couldn't pull: >> >> Found branch parent: (tags/project-92~9) >> 767f1f1601a4deae459c99ea6c1d1b9ba8f57a65 >> Following parent with do_update >> ... >> Successfully followed parent >> fatal: refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9: cannot lock the ref >> update-ref -m r13726 refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9 >> 950638ff72acc278156a0d55baafbabb43f2b772: command returned error: 128 >> >> Some amount of searching failed to turn up any hints on what this >> error means or how I can work around it. I'd appreciate any >> advice ... > > Is there a tag actually named "project-92~9"? unfortunately, there's more than one tag with this naming convention :( > If so, it's > an invalid branch name for git. I started working on a way > around it by mapping new names to it, but haven't gotten around to > finishing it.... Aha! I don't really need 90% of the tags - is there a way I can tell the "git-svn fetch" not to bother with particular tags? ``` ## Eric Wong, 2007-06-09 20:06 Subject: Re: git-svn "cannot lock ref" error during fetch Message-ID: <20070609200650.GD32225@muzzle> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070609200650.GD32225%40muzzle In-Reply-To: <6C4E89FC-CE40-4A76-A297-E0AB7A1F2F75@mac.com> ``` James Peach wrote: > On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > > >James Peach wrote: > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I'm new to git, and I'm experimenting with using git-svn to interact > >>with a large SVN repository with lots of branches. > >> > >>I initially did an init like this: > >> > >>git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk svn+ssh://server/svn/ > >>project > >> > >>Then I did a git-svn fetch, which started pulling all the branches. > >>After a while, however, it hit a branch that it couldn't pull: > >> > >>Found branch parent: (tags/project-92~9) > >>767f1f1601a4deae459c99ea6c1d1b9ba8f57a65 > >>Following parent with do_update > >>... > >>Successfully followed parent > >>fatal: refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9: cannot lock the ref > >>update-ref -m r13726 refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9 > >>950638ff72acc278156a0d55baafbabb43f2b772: command returned error: 128 > >> > >>Some amount of searching failed to turn up any hints on what this > >>error means or how I can work around it. I'd appreciate any > >>advice ... > > > >Is there a tag actually named "project-92~9"? > > unfortunately, there's more than one tag with this naming convention :( > > > If so, it's > >an invalid branch name for git. I started working on a way > >around it by mapping new names to it, but haven't gotten around to > >finishing it.... > > Aha! I don't really need 90% of the tags - is there a way I can tell > the "git-svn fetch" not to bother with particular tags? You can manually add fetch = foo:bar lines in the [svn-remote "svn"] section of your .git/config file. See the one for trunk. Then remove the tags= wildcard config line. -- Eric Wong ``` ## James Peach, 2007-06-13 23:07 Subject: Re: git-svn "cannot lock ref" error during fetch Message-ID: <3AF13F38-11FE-429A-890C-36352A703D18@mac.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/3AF13F38-11FE-429A-890C-36352A703D18%40mac.com In-Reply-To: <20070609200650.GD32225@muzzle> ``` On Jun 9, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > James Peach wrote: >> On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Eric Wong wrote: >> >>> James Peach wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm new to git, and I'm experimenting with using git-svn to >>>> interact >>>> with a large SVN repository with lots of branches. >>>> >>>> I initially did an init like this: >>>> >>>> git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk svn+ssh://server/svn/ >>>> project >>>> >>>> Then I did a git-svn fetch, which started pulling all the branches. >>>> After a while, however, it hit a branch that it couldn't pull: >>>> >>>> Found branch parent: (tags/project-92~9) >>>> 767f1f1601a4deae459c99ea6c1d1b9ba8f57a65 >>>> Following parent with do_update >>>> ... >>>> Successfully followed parent >>>> fatal: refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9: cannot lock the ref >>>> update-ref -m r13726 refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9 >>>> 950638ff72acc278156a0d55baafbabb43f2b772: command returned error: >>>> 128 >>>> >>>> Some amount of searching failed to turn up any hints on what this >>>> error means or how I can work around it. I'd appreciate any >>>> advice ... >>> >>> Is there a tag actually named "project-92~9"? >> >> unfortunately, there's more than one tag with this naming >> convention :( >> >>> If so, it's >>> an invalid branch name for git. I started working on a way >>> around it by mapping new names to it, but haven't gotten around to >>> finishing it.... >> >> Aha! I don't really need 90% of the tags - is there a way I can tell >> the "git-svn fetch" not to bother with particular tags? > > You can manually add fetch = foo:bar lines in the [svn-remote "svn"] > section of your .git/config file. See the one for trunk. Then > remove the tags= wildcard config line. that worked really well, thanks a lot! ```