Resolution Options for Reference Tags created with double quotes in Windows

[Uma Lingesh Family]

In error I created a tag with a build number within double quotes.

 

Now we get the following error because windows file system is not able to identify with double quotes in the name.

 

2017-02-09T19:39:22.0551792Z ##[command]git -c http.extraheader="AUTHORIZATION: bearer ********" fetch --tags --prune --progress origin

2017-02-09T19:39:22.9717910Z error: cannot lock ref 'refs/tags/"<tagname>"': Unable to create ''<reponame>/.git/refs/tags/"<tagname>".lock': Invalid argument

2017-02-09T19:39:22.9717910Z 

2017-02-09T19:39:22.9717910Z  ! [new tag]         "<tagname>" -> "<tagname>"  (unable to update local ref)

2017-02-09T19:39:23.0967934Z ##[error]Git fetch failed with exit code: 1

 

Using Visual Studio if we clone/pull/fetch the repository, we get the following error:

Error encountered while cloning the remote repository: Invalid reference name 'refs/tags/"<tagname>"'.

 

We tried pruning remote/local respoistories, renaming tags. But this did not help in getting the issue fixed.

 

Is there any work around to resolve this kind of issue?

 

[Uma Lingesh Family]

In error I created a tag with a build number within double quotes.

 

Now we notice the following error because windows file system is not able to identify with double quotes in the name.

 

2017-02-09T19:39:22.0551792Z ##[command]git -c http.extraheader="AUTHORIZATION: bearer ********" fetch --tags --prune --progress origin

2017-02-09T19:39:22.9717910Z error: cannot lock ref 'refs/tags/"<name>"': Unable to create '.git/refs/tags/"20170208.4".lock': Invalid argument

2017-02-09T19:39:22.9717910Z From 

2017-02-09T19:39:22.9717910Z  ! [new tag]         "<name>" -> "<name>"  (unable to update local ref)

2017-02-09T19:39:23.0967934Z ##[error]Git fetch failed with exit code: 1

 

Using Visual Studio if we clone/pull/fetch the repository, we get the following error:

Error encountered while cloning the remote repository: Invalid reference name 'refs/tags/"<name>"'.

 

We tried pruning remote/local repositories, renaming tags. But this did not help in getting the issue fixed.

 

Is there any work around to resolve this kind of issue?

 

Thanks

Uma

[Johannes Sixt]

Am 10.02.2017 um 22:19 schrieb Uma Lingesh Family:
> In error I created a tag with a build number within double quotes.
>
> Now we get the following error because windows file system is not able
> to identify with double quotes in the name.

>...

>
> Is there any work around to resolve this kind of issue?

I suggest to remove the tag from the server:

git push origin :/refs/tags/"\"<name>\""

-- Hannes

[Uma Lingesh Family]

We tried the following

 git push origin :/refs/tags/"20170208.4" 

git push origin :/refs/tags/"\"20170208.4\"" 

git push origin :/refs/tags/\"20170208.4\"

All the above are giving the error "fatal: remote part of refspec is not a valid name in :/refs/tags/..."

Also we tried git push origin :/refs/tags/20170208.4

For this it gave a warning : Deleting non existent tag 20170208.4

Any other ways we can delete this tag?

[Johannes Sixt]

Am 13.02.2017 um 23:07 schrieb Uma Lingesh Family:
> We tried the following
> git push origin :/refs/tags/"20170208.4"
> git push origin :/refs/tags/"\"20170208.4\""
> git push origin :/refs/tags/\"20170208.4\"
> All the above are giving the error "fatal: remote part of refspec is not
> a valid name in :/refs/tags/..."

Sorry, make that

git push origin :refs/tags/"\"20170208.4\""

-- Hannes

[Uma Lingesh Family]

Thanks a bunch. This helped. We were able to delete this in remote.

However we tried to delete in the same way in local using the below command

git tag -d "\"20170208.4\""

But it throws error: Cannot lock ref 'refs/tags/"20170208.4":

Any help on deleting from local is appreciated.

[Johannes Sixt]

Am 17.02.2017 um 21:00 schrieb Uma Lingesh Family:
> Thanks a bunch. This helped. We were able to delete this in remote.
>
> However we tried to delete in the same way in local using the below command
>
> git tag -d "\"20170208.4\""
>
> But it throws error: Cannot lock ref 'refs/tags/"20170208.4":
>
> Any help on deleting from local is appreciated.

Make a backup copy of the file .git\packed-refs (or better yet, of the
whole .git directory). Then edit the file; remove the line with the
unwanted entry and the next line, which begins with a ^ character.

-- Hannes

[Uma Lingesh Family]

Thanks Johannes. It worked!