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Asked: 2026-05-28T18:05:39+00:00

When I tried to do a git archive on a file from a remote

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When I tried to do a git archive on a file from a remote location for a different branch other than head/master, I do get a warning telling that 

remote: warning: refname 'xxx' is ambiguous.

The command that I used was 

git archive --remote=gitserve:some_repo xxx filename | tar -x
remote: warning: refname 'xxx' is ambiguous.

But when I give xxx as master or HEAD it works fine. But if it’s some branch name I get a warning though the output is there. Let me know if there are some things that I am missing or if there is some issue in my setup.

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Shar

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  1. Editorial Team

    The warning about the ambigious refname tells you that “xxx” is ambigious (who’d have thought that). This means that you have a branch and a tag sharing the same name, or maybe a branch has a name that can be mistaken for a commit ID. Try using “refs/heads/branch” or “refs/tags/tag” as refname.

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