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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*'
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:46:03 +0200 (CEST)
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To: Nicolas Bock <nbock@lanl.gov>
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Hi,

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Nicolas Bock wrote:

> This is what I get:
> 
> $ git show-ref
> a4995ae293fd95697a643cd3ea45585ecc38a19d refs/heads/ACT
> 3378ccb42c22740b7fcc240ffa0e4f798b8acf1f refs/heads/master
> 78e33155a0ab4ab0acba4c64758681fe99f1c5ca refs/heads/nick
> ef66b3aa74b8c1edb55161e01a99dee7cf9edaa3 refs/remotes/origin/*

This is the culprit.  It is obviously a wrong name: "*" is not allowed.

Hth,
Dscho