FYI: SVN to GIT converter currently broken, github is falling behind

[Alfred Perlstein]

Lars,

Try to remove .git/gc.log then re-run fetch.

If that doesn't work then move ".git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD" to backup 
location outside of your .git directory and try again.

-Alfred

On 11/11/15 4:03 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got this error when fetching from remote; related?
>
> [elars at laurel: ~/src] git fetch --all
> Fetching origin
> Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance.
> See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
> Fetching upstream
> remote: Counting objects: 557, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (543/543), done.
> remote: Total 557 (delta 213), reused 2 (delta 2), pack-reused 0
> Receiving objects: 100% (557/557), 1.15 MiB | 433.00 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (213/213), completed with 2 local objects.
>  From github.com:/freebsd/freebsd
>     b4eb11a..3eb0ea4  master     -> upstream/master
>     f147893..9c319c0  stable/10  -> upstream/stable/10
>     e901edd..b3c9fd2  stable/8   -> upstream/stable/8
>     81ab2b1..2fc7a9a  stable/9   -> upstream/stable/9
>     c2c933c..cc76737  svn_head   -> upstream/svn_head
> Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance.
> See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
> error: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct the root cause
> and remove .git/gc.log.
> Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is removed.
>
> fatal: bad object refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
> error: failed to run repack
>
> Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance.
> See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
> error: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct the root cause
> and remove .git/gc.log.
> Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is removed.
>
> fatal: bad object refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
> error: failed to run repack
>
> Lars