Hi all,

I have an issue cloning a repository's master branch on any new machine. 
Machines that had an old clone of the same repository have no problem with 
the master branch.

When cloning, I get the fatal error "Trying to write ref refs/heads/master 
with nonexistant object 38eca7173be01a36ef03ebcf75732eba32e4038d" and git 
immediately deletes the target directory of the clone. However, all objects 
seem to be transmitted:

remote: Counting objects: 45900, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14129/14129), done.
remote: Total 45900 (delta 30836), reused 44791 (delta 30042)
Receiving objects: 100% (45900/45900), 52.81 MiB | 18.27 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (30836/30836), done.
error: refs/remotes/origin/master does not point to a valid object!
error: Trying to write ref refs/heads/master with nonexistant object 
38eca7173be01a36ef03ebcf75732eba32e4038d
fatal: Cannot update the ref 'HEAD'.

And when we look at the repository on the server, the object is there:

Output of ls -l ./objects/38/eca7173be01a36ef03ebcf75732eba32e4038d

-r--r----- 1 gitolite gitolite 191 Sep 20 15:45 
./objects/38/eca7173be01a36ef03ebcf75732eba32e4038d


Output of git cat-file -p 38eca7173be01a36ef03ebcf75732eba32e4038d

tree 8edd1a6a3d9b309402edcde6f49526400a0ac487                               
                                                                            
   
parent 846c4b22ea89475cb70ca0bfe1e67b84f4118c0c                             
                                                                            
   
author Ramón Cahenzli <censored> 1348148745 +0200                           
                                                                           
committer Ramón Cahenzli <censored> 1348148745 +0200                       
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
   
ApiGen: No need to check for new versions.


The git version on the server is 1.7.10.4, the client has 1.7.2.5, both on 
Debian. We use gitolite 2.3 for those repositories, from Debian wheezy. We 
haven't had issues like this on either GitHub or with plain SSH-based repos 
(as in, no gitolite), so this might in fact be a gitolite issue, but 
perhaps there is something obvious I'm missing?

Cheers,

Ramón

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