[CFH] Broken permissions in repo.or.cz repositories

[Petr Baudis <pasky@repo.or.cz>]

  Hi,

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:18:18PM +0200, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:
> I have run into a problem with your new fine cloud-changes: whenever I
> push changes to the 'master'
> branch of the etorrent.git repository, the overview page at
> http://repo.or.cz/w/etorrent.git removes
> the shortlog and shows no master branch at all. This problem means that we get:
> 
> jlouis@ogre:~/tmp$ git clone git://repo.or.cz/etorrent.git/
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jlouis/tmp/etorrent/.git/
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> 
> for new checkouts. Now, I've found a fix which is to pull over ssh:
> 
> jlouis@ogre:~/tmp$ git clone git+ssh://repo.or.cz/srv/git/etorrent.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jlouis/tmp/etorrent/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 7510, done.
> remote: Compressing objReceiving objects:   9% (676/7510), 100.00 KiB
> | 167 KiB/remote: Compressing objects:  69% (1649/238Receiving
> objects:  10% (751/7510), 1remote: Compressing obReceiving objects:
> 12% (902/7510), 100.00 KiB | 167 KiB/sremote: Comremote: pressing
> objects: 100% (2389/2389), done.
> remote: Total 7510 (delta 4432), reused 7510 (delta 4432)
> Receiving objects: 100% (7510/7510), 1.93 MiB | 517 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (4432/4432), done.
> jlouis@ogre:~/tmp$ ls
> 
> which, as you can see, works. Then one can clone via git://... until I
> make another push and we are
> back to square one. I have not been able to find another repository
> having the same problem which
> makes me wonder if there is something wrong with my repository state
> which becomes fixed when it compresses
> the objects when I use the git+ssh transport?
> 
> For the sake of completeness, it is Ubuntu 8.04 here with git --version:
> 
> jlouis@ogre:~$ git --version
> git version 1.5.4.3

  turns out current git has buggy handling of the sharedRepository
config parameter, resulting in permission problems. Hopefully fixed.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- J. Olson