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

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

[Petr Baudis]

  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

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

[Petr Baudis]

  Hi,

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 01:00:58AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
>   turns out current git has buggy handling of the sharedRepository
> config parameter, resulting in permission problems. Hopefully fixed.

  sorry, this was not supposed to be cc'd to the mailing list in the
end, and is not CFH anymore. I'm trying to send a patch to the mailing
list now. :-)

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