From: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:07:28 GMT
Subject: Re: pygit2 claims repository does not exist on GIT_DIR_INVALID_OWNERSHIP
Message-ID: <20231019120728.GV6241@kitsune.suse.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20231019093344.GS6241@kitsune.suse.cz>

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 11:33:44AM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> after upgrade from git 2.26 to git 2.35 pygit would claim that my
> repository does not exist:
> 
> :~> git ls-remote /srv/git/kernel-source.git | head -n3
> 41037b9c54949ab7df9d32e8bc753c059b27c66c        HEAD
> 7a68c4c0c640ac07b89722271f866287b9047459        refs/heads/ALP-current
> 4993d1b0a96a0fa7fb0e87d3b1725bc775162283        refs/heads/ALP-current-RT
> :~> python3
> Python 3.6.15 (default, Sep 23 2021, 15:41:43) [GCC] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import pygit2
> >>> pygit2.Repository("/srv/git/kernel-source.git")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pygit2/repository.py", line 1498, in __init__
>     path_backend = init_file_backend(path, flags)
> _pygit2.GitError: Repository not found at /srv/git/kernel-source.git
> >>> 
> 
> Could a reasonable diagnostic be provided?

It turns out that I have relatively recent python3-pygit2 but it's
linked against ancient libgit2 causing this error.

Rebuilding python3-pygit2 fixes the problem.

Sorry about the noise.

Thanks

Michal