Re: Bug encountered while comitting

From: Matthias Kestenholz <lists@irregular.ch>
Date: Mar 25, 2006, 01:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20060325011530.GA25951@spinlock.ch>
In-Reply-To: <442449E1.5060007@op5.se>

* Andreas Ericsson (ae@op5.se) wrote:

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> Matthias Kestenholz wrote:
> >
> >The PHP script created directories under .git/objects
> 
> 
> Ouch... You're not really supposed to do that. The proper thing to do is 
> to do things in the working tree and commit them to git later.
>

I think I did not express myself clearly. The PHP Script executes git commands which in turn create or modify the mentioned directories. I do not create them myself by hand.

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> >When I tried to commit, I got a message saying "Unable to write sha1
> >filename".
> >
> 
> What file were you trying to write?
>

Some file I was updating (in this case, a file holding some wiki content)

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> >The result was, that only part of the commit was recorded and that I
> >experienced repository corruption. refs/heads/master pointed to a
> >non-existant object.
> >
> 
> Did you use git tools to update .git/refs/heads/master ?
>

Yes.

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> 
> >The expected behavior would have been an error message telling me I
> >had insufficient write privileges and surely no repository
> >corruption.
> >
> 
> Didn't you get the strerror(3) message from that? If so, I'd consider it 
> a bug.

As I (only now) wrote in the other email, I got the "Permission denied" message, and that was a sufficient hint what was wrong.

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