Git - fatal: Branch name doesn't conform to GIT standards

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I am trying to migrate a CVS repo to Git using cvs2git. Unfortunately my cvs repo has many branches with regex. While doing git fast import(unix) it reports the error below

fatal: Branch name doesn't conform to GIT standards: refs/tags/Release21_3_4_0_0_3_7_10[3_8_4_3] fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_27083

I tried to delete these tags, but no luck. i think it is taking the entire history. I am not able to import the HEAD alone also.

How do i resolve this?

You could try this out, if you haven't already: stackoverflow.com/a/10020482/26396 — Enrico Campidoglio
– Enrico Campidoglio, Commented Jan 28, 2015 at 9:49

CodeWizard · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-12 18:34:40Z

You can find out more here. This is how git verify that your branch name is a valid name.

The problem is the [] characters. Try to locally create branch with those names and you will see the error.

Here is a detailed post(s) abot what and how to do it.

Git try to create branch with the given name

You must rename the tags in order to get them into git.

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