Re: cg-clone, tag objects and cg-push/git-push don't play nice

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 19, 2005, 08:10 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90510190110g53c90c5t419ad6065292269e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmp6dlii.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 10/19/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >  + git-push is trying to walk all the refs it knows about when it does
> > the "what do I have that the repo doesn't" part, and it breaks on
> > those incomplete tag fetches.
>
> That is expected.

Hmmm. I was under the impression that if I call git-push naming a particular head, it could restrict itself to the stuff needed for that head only. Just to clarify, I'm running

  git-push locke.catalyst.net.nz:/var/git/moodle-test.git master:mdl-topnz-prod

> Although I do not follow Cogito development closely, I seem to
> recall that it fetched tags without making them complete at some
> point in the past; I hope it is now fixed but I am not sure.

It isn't fixed, but I'm trying to address that one :-p

> I do not understand why removing .git/refs/tags/* did not help,
> and that is the biggest thing that disturbs me in this whole
> problem report

I can't understand that either, but I manually removed all the refs/tags, and the only heads I have are origin and master. git-push won't let me do it until the exact point where I have removed the object from the repo. And that's only possible on unpacked repos.

> Maybe there are some other files
> under .git/refs/ directory that had copies of them?

No. I run a test again, to make sure. Removing .git/refs/tags is not enough, and the only refs available are origin and master.

I've come up with this awful script to resolve it, while I try to fix cg-fetch:

#usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my @refs = `ls .git/refs/tags`;

foreach my $ref (@refs) {
  chomp $ref;
  print "testing for a commit linked from $ref\n";
  my $commit = `git-rev-parse --verify "$ref"^{commit} 2>/dev/null`;
  if ($?) {
    # this one didn't even have a tag ref pointing to a commit!
    #unlink ".git/refs/tags/$ref"
    #  or die "cannot remove .git/refs/tags/$ref";
    #next;
  }

  # thest that we actually have the commit object...
  chomp $commit;
  my $file = `git-cat-file commit $commit  2>/dev/null`;
  if ($?) {
    # could not find the commit object, we better get rid of the
    # tagref and tagobj
    my $tagsha = `git-rev-parse --verify "$ref"  2>/dev/null`;

    chomp $tagsha;
    if ($tagsha) {
      # doublecheck it is a tag
      my $type = `git-cat-file -t $tagsha  2>/dev/null`;
      chomp $type;
      if ($type eq 'tag') {
        my $fileobj = ".git/objects/" . substr($tagsha,0,2) . '/' .
substr($tagsha,2);
        print " removing $fileobj for ref $ref tagsha $tagsha \n";
        `rm -f $fileobj`;
        unlink  ".git/refs/tags/$ref";
      }
    }
  }
}

cheers,