Re: fetching from an hg remote fails with bare git repositories

From: Taylor Braun-Jones <taylor@braun-jones.org>
Date: Aug 4, 2015, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKfKJYshy58eQMXTusUTf0dc2B7uVU+=rzdSicSG0JAuODSBug@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kawh0himmR+DuvcQB0O1rRVBhkg9ycCLvPdbp1m0sHKtQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Taylor Braun-Jones
> <taylor@braun-jones.org> wrote:
>> Fetching from an hg remote fails with bare git repositories. Non-bare
>> repositories work fine.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>>
>> mkdir /tmp/hgrepo
>> cd /tmp/hgrepo
>> hg init
>> echo foo > foo.txt
>> hg add foo.txt
>> hg commit -m "add foo.txt" foo.txt
>> git clone hg::/tmp/hgrepo/ /tmp/gitrepo
>> cd /tmp/gitrepo/
>> git fetch # WORKS
>> git clone --bare hg::/tmp/hgrepo/ /tmp/gitrepo.git
>> cd /tmp/gitrepo.git/
>> git fetch # FAILS
>>
>> The error message from the last line is:
>>
>> fatal: bad object 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
>> error: hg::/tmp/hgrepo/ did not send all necessary objects
>>
>> Taylor
>
> Which version of git did you test this with? Does it also happen on
> the latest version?

Sorry - forgot that detail. This is using git 2.1.4 from Ubuntu 15.04 x86_64. I haven't tried the latest version of git yet.