Re: [Savannah-help-public] Re: coreutils is moving to distributed version control

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:18:51PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I installed gitweb, to browse the repositories:
> > http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/
> 
> Sylvain,
> 
> I first pushed your little example (dir containing only README),
> and that worked.  Then I went to my "master" coreutils git tree
> and pushed it. (I had to use --force, due to the prior push).
> It appeared to do something useful, in that it transferred lots
> of data, but I'm not sure about the error at the end:
> 
>   $ git push --force address@hidden:/srv/git/sources/coreutils.git 
> master:refs/heads/master
>   updating 'refs/heads/master'                                                
>        from c2b7665c47782eca64a41b5495e07baf6ec542ab
>     to   e24ce7c58d2355b720b523f0bde6e0d2c47cbe68
>   Generating pack...
>   Done counting 127692 objects.
>   Deltifying 127692 objects.
>    100% (127692/127692) done
>   Unpacking 127692 objects
>   Total 127692, written 127692 (delta 91752), reused 127181 (delta 91374)
>   error: denying non-fast forward; you should pull first
> 
> But now, gitweb still shows only the test directory.
> 
>   http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=summary
> 
> And a clone:
> 
>     git-clone -n git://cvs.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/sources/coreutils.git
> 
> gets only the tiny test directory, not the 50+MB repo I uploaded.
> 
> Does this require manual intervention?

I hope not.

I'll try to override my own tiny repo and see.

I also setup a temp 'test.git' repository for you to experiment with
if needed.

Feel free to drop by address@hidden btw.

-- 
Sylvain