Re: git http-push and MKCOL error (22/409)

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 17, 2009, 04:58 UTC
Message-ID: <be6fef0d0908162158y429c4b5fgb9138151446e39ef@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7veirb5z9a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> 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.

Yes, you're right, but git prints out the full SHA-1 hash even though it is actually referring to the 2-hexdigit directory that it failed to create/verify, for whatever reason.

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> 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".

I guess by "original report" you refer to Thomas' initial email: yes, he (unwittingly) did provide theerror code in the subject line, the part which says (22/409). It actually means (<curl return code>/<http return code>). Referring again to http://www.webdav.org/specs/rfc4918.html#rfc.section.9.3.1:

  409 (Conflict) - A collection cannot be made at the Request-URI until
  one or more intermediate collections have been created. The server
  must not create those intermediate collections automatically.

meaning one or more parent directories weren't created.

Based on this and his procedure, I'm guessing that there's something wrong with his setup.

> *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.

Indeed.

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Cheers,
Ray Chuan