From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
gregkh@kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitweb on kernel.org broken
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:28:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060116202853.GA5676@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwth0rlfm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:02:05PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:
>
> >> Junio, seems your "textual symref HEAD" change is causing this?
>
> Yeah, I assumed git_read_head() is called only on a repository
> that was verified to be valid, and the subroutine did not check
> the case where HEAD does not verify. My bad. The attached
> patch should solve this.
>
> The error log says hotplug-ng.git is triggering it. I wonder what
> is so special about that repository. I hope it is transient
> during mirroring that mirrored HEAD before objects, not a
> corrupt repository at the mirroring source.
>
> ... goes to kernel.org mirroring source machine ...
>
> Ugh. It is _not_ a valid git repository. HEAD should be either a symlink
> or a symref pointing somewhere under refs/heads/, but in that
> directory, it instead is a regular file that contains an object
> name. There is nothing under refs/ either:
>
> $ ls -l /pub/scm/linux/hotplug/hotplug-ng.git/HEAD
> -rw-r--r-- 2 gregkh users 41 May 6 2005 /pub/s...ug-ng.git/HEAD
> $ cat /pub/scm/linux/hotplug/hotplug-ng.git/HEAD
> b26bec9f620a969fe5238e8666ab698f197df488
> $ ls -l /pub/scm/linux/hotplug/hotplug-ng.git/refs
> total 0
> $ exit
>
> Greg, could you let me know what is going on with this
> repository, please?
>
> First of all, I am wondering if this repository is still used
> (maintained); a regular file HEAD that contains an object name
> would have stopped working on Aug 27 2005 with this commit at the
> latest, maybe even before that:
That's a very old git tree, and the development tree is pretty much dead
too. I'll just go delete the thing.
Sorry about that.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-16 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-16 18:44 gitweb on kernel.org broken H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-16 18:53 ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-16 19:05 ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-16 20:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-16 20:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
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