Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:15:48 -0500 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success (Re: git problem) |
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On 10/02/2011 10:59 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Larry Finger wrote: > >> I had my system freeze when doing a pull from Linus's repo. Since then, >> every pull results in the following errors: >> >> ~> git pull >> error: unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success >> From git://github.com/torvalds/linux >> ! [new tag] v3.1-rc8 -> v3.1-rc8 (unable to update local ref) > > Could you try pulling again with > "/path/to/git/sources/bin-wrappers/git pull" after applying this > patch? > > Thanks, > > diff --git i/refs.c w/refs.c > index a615043b..b15f78a4 100644 > --- i/refs.c > +++ w/refs.c > @@ -493,12 +493,15 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int * > char *buf; > int fd; > > - if (--depth< 0) > + if (--depth< 0) { > + errno = ELOOP; > return NULL; > + } > > git_snpath(path, sizeof(path), "%s", ref); > /* Special case: non-existing file. */ > if (lstat(path,&st)< 0) { > + int saved_errno = errno; > struct ref_list *list = get_packed_refs(NULL); > while (list) { > if (!strcmp(ref, list->name)) { > @@ -509,6 +512,7 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int * > } > list = list->next; > } > + errno = saved_errno; > if (reading || errno != ENOENT) > return NULL; > hashclr(sha1); > @@ -562,7 +566,8 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int * > *flag |= REF_ISSYMREF; > } > if (len< 40 || get_sha1_hex(buffer, sha1)) > - return NULL; > + die("ref %s is corrupt: length=%d, content=%.*s", ref, > + (int) len, (int) len, buffer); > return ref; > }
After applying that patch, I get
finger@larrylap:~/linux-2.6> ~/git/git pull fatal: ref refs/tags/v3.1-rc8 is corrupt: length=41, content=
Larry
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