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

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:38:12PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> 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.


I had a little chat at #git and we could not replace the existing
master without merging with the previous repository. I'll dig out this
some more.

Meanwhile I manually replaced refs/heads/master to
e24ce7c58d2355b720b523f0bde6e0d2c47cbe68 (you just mentioned it) and I
also repacked the repository to a 45MB pack file :)

-- 
Sylvain