Re: Git push subtree fail unknown revision or path possibly due to missing git-subtree-split commit

From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 8, 2021, 01:14 UTC
Message-ID: <efdf8b7e-b568-cb13-eb07-346dc9ca4f49@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CANcBuaZmRj3tZqprNwjJatJ87F0vUVDKDRm5+OnOk_z3wqvJYg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Eddie

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Le 2021-10-07 à 02:00, Eddie Ridwan a écrit :

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> Hi Philippe
> 
> Using the debug option (see attached file), I see that the git push
> subtree command is complaining that many commits are in the wrong
> order.
>

Indeed, the attachment shows many messages like:

progress: 1/     131 (0) [0]
Processing commit: 1fbbdda4f0ef15794eeb4a343d3fb1bf17fbb853
   parents: c75f7cab156c91a1bf3b36658e1ac94dd1905bba
     incorrect order: c75f7cab156c91a1bf3b36658e1ac94dd1905bba

> Any idea how this could happen? And is there any way to recover from this?

I'm not a 'git subtree' user myself, so really don't know unfortunately.

> 
> Would it be best to just delete the subtree and start again?

You could do that. If you do want to debug further, I would suggest searching the mailing list (see https://lore.kernel.org/git/_/text/help/) for recent contributors to 'contrib/subtree' and CC-ing them. Maybe they will be able to provide more insight here.

You also asked on Stack Overflow if you should try to delete the subtree cache. I think this could be something to try (I would guess if it's called a cache, it should be recreated). But again I'm not a 'git subtree' user.

> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Eddie Ridwan

Cheers,

Philippe.