Re: "fatal error in commit_refs" from pushing to github

2016-09-08 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:03:33PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > > So this is really an internal failure at the ref-update stage. There > > _should_ be a reasonable error message, but I think "fatal error in > > commit_refs" is the generic last-ditch fallback. I'll pass this along to > > people in ch

Re: "fatal error in commit_refs" from pushing to github

2016-09-08 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 07:49:12AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > >> I got the message in the subject when pushing to github today. Yes I >> know it's github, not git. But according to stackoveflow [1] it's a >> local problem. Which makes me think, if

Re: "fatal error in commit_refs" from pushing to github

2016-09-07 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 07:49:12AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > I got the message in the subject when pushing to github today. Yes I > know it's github, not git. But according to stackoveflow [1] it's a > local problem. Which makes me think, if we know exactly what this is > (or at least roughly the

"fatal error in commit_refs" from pushing to github

2016-09-07 Thread Duy Nguyen
I got the message in the subject when pushing to github today. Yes I know it's github, not git. But according to stackoveflow [1] it's a local problem. Which makes me think, if we know exactly what this is (or at least roughly the problem area), maybe we could improve git to catch it locally in the