Re: [PATCH] BUG: git push on an empty clone segfaults.

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 20, 2009, 20:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20090420204604.GF8940@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904201629280.6771@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 04:30:38PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:55:10PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > I fetched from repo.or.cz and tested with 'master', and it was broken.  
> > > Apparently git://repo.or.cz/git.git is lagging behind by 5 days.  
> > > Pasky?
> > 
> >   yes, I noticed that the mirroring got hanging on some dead repository 
> > earlier today and restarted it, but it might take a while until a full 
> > mirror cycle refreshes everything.
> 
> I always wondered why it should make sense to have a mirror git.git, and 
> in addition a repository alt-git.git that Junio pushes to.
> 
> Maybe it is time to fix that?
> 
> I mean, I am hardly a Git newbie, and even I got burnt.

Sure, I can fix that, making alt-git.git a soft-link to git.git (or, specifically, making refs/ and objects/ symlinks). Junio even might not have to change his push scripts. ;-)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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in the morning feeling just terrible. -- Jean Kerr