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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 20, 2009, 11:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhc0jh928.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904201252120.6955@intel-tinevez-2-302>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
>> 
>> > Ideally, "git push" from an empty repository to another empty one
>> > should be a no-op, or perhaps should error out cleanly. Currently, it
>> > just segfaults.
>> 
>> Didn't we see this fixed by Nguyễn with 55f0566 (get_local_heads(): do not
>> return random pointer if there is no head, 2009-04-17)?
>
> 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?

Unfortunately, that repository is outside of my direct control.

I push into the following four repositories:

	k.org's master repository
	git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git/
        git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
	git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core

The k.org's master repository is mirrored (with small lag) to:

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

I suspect that Pasky mirrors that mirror (with some lag) to:

        git://repo.or.cz/git.git

There may be some other mirrors of mirrors I do not know about.

I'd guess that people in the US are better off going to git.kernel.org, Europeans to git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git, and East Asians to git.sourceforge.jp/.

I've already written about this elsewhere [*1*], but the sourceforge ones are partial; they only have maint and master (and tags).

[Footnote]

*1* http://gitster.livejournal.com/31668.html