From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:34:25 GMT
Subject: Re: git http-push and MKCOL error (22/409)
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In-Reply-To: <be6fef0d0908160727r7dfa9b46l4d493e3954c21de3@mail.gmail.com>

Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Thomas
> Schlichter<thomas.schlichter@web.de> wrote:
>> Current "master" and "next" trees also have this problem. But as git version
>> 1.6.4 does not have this problem, I was able to bisect it down to commit:
>>
>>   5424bc557fc6414660830b470dd45774b8f5f281
>>   http*: add helper methods for fetching objects (loose)
>
> Interesting. Please do provide:
>
>  -steps to reproduce,
>  -your server's access log.

The report said:

    MKCOL 98fd7fb8f32843c1bb40bd195a2f1cd6cab0751d failed, aborting (22/409)

As far as I can see you are trying (in http-push.c::start_mkcol()) to
create the two-hexdigit fan-out directory (i.e. "98" for this example); it
is strange to see a request to create the full 40-hexdigit collection in
the first place.

In another thread you responded to earlier:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/125933/focus=125972

the original report did not give the exact error message, but in that one,
instead of failing to create 40-hexdigit collection like this, I am
guessing that it fails with something like "MKCOL 'refs' failed".

So are these unrelated "breakages"[1]?

[Foornote]

*1* Not necessarily in the sense the client is broken but in the sense
that the server-client combination does not work for the reporter.