Re: [libvirt] GITHUB readonly mirror site

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 03:20:12PM -0400, Charlie Drage wrote: Yeah, there are a couple of repos that I have some trouble pushing due to bad historical commits that are now rejected :-( In cimtest.git remote: error: object e710038e2b044a2ed12e0abfe814f046880186f2:invalid author/committer line - missing space before email remote: fatal: Error in object error: pack-objects died of signal 13 error: pack-objects died with strange error error: failed to push some refs to 'git@gitlab.com:libvirt/cimtest.git' remote: error: object e710038e2b044a2ed12e0abfe814f046880186f2:invalid author/committer line - missing space before email remote: fatal: Error in object error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit In libvirt-ocaml.git remote: error: object fe513a732d629995ec22cfaa195a5ab8e499bceb:invalid author/committer line - bad date remote: fatal: Error in object error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit To git@gitlab.com:libvirt/libvirt-ocaml.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (unpacker error) error: failed to push some refs to 'git@gitlab.com:libvirt/libvirt-ocaml.git' remote: error: object fe513a732d629995ec22cfaa195a5ab8e499bceb:invalid author/committer line - bad date remote: fatal: Error in object error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit To git@github.com:libvirtproject/libvirt-ocaml.git And in ruby-libvirt.git remote: error: object acb8c8a2c6b3b33cf02c4f03eeb8bc0b803e6b24:invalid author/committer line - bad date remote: fatal: Error in object error: pack-objects died of signal 13 error: pack-objects died with strange error error: failed to push some refs to 'git@gitlab.com:libvirt/ruby-libvirt.git' remote: error: object acb8c8a2c6b3b33cf02c4f03eeb8bc0b803e6b24:invalid author/committer line - bad date remote: fatal: Error in object error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit I've been reading up online and AFAICT, the only way to fix this is to re-write GIT history entirely in the affected repos. This doesn't change the content, but it'll invalidate everyone's current checkouts :-( Perhaps these 3 modules are niche / small enough that we're fine rewriting history....or maybe Eric knows another workaround ? Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|