From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: "David Forman" <dforman@dairyfoodusa.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Error during git gc
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:00:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqeiua8x3g.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <APEJLFBGDNOMCHGLHIHFEEKPDEAA.dforman@dairyfoodusa.com> (David Forman's message of "Wed\, 27 May 2009 08\:28\:29 -0500")
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"David Forman" <dforman@dairyfoodusa.com> writes:
> I've encountered the following whenever I access Git and try to compress the
> database due to loose objects.
>
> error: cannot lock ref 'HEAD~'
> error: cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/collections~'
> error: cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/master~'
I'd say you've edited the files .git/HEAD, refs/heads/collections, ...
manually with a text editor that leaves ~ backup files. Unless you
_really_ have branches called collections~ and master~, you can move
these three files (in a temporary folder, or to trash if you're
confident enough).
--
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 14:04 UTC|newest]
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2009-05-27 13:28 (unknown), David Forman
2009-05-27 14:00 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
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2009-05-27 15:03 ` Error during git gc Matthieu Moy
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