Downtime Notification: Git and Subversion

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Stephane MANKOWSKI
<stephane at mankowski.fr> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Stephane,

>
> I don't know if this is linked, but now, when I use "releaseme" to build a
> tar file, I have an error during the git clone.
>
> Example:
> If I launche:
>
> git clone --branch master --depth 1 git at git.kde.org:skrooge
>
> I have the following traces:
>
> Cloning into 'skrooge'...
> Enter passphrase for key '/home/s/.ssh/id_dsa':
> fatal: (null) is unknown object
> remote: Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
> fatal: recursion detected in die handler
> remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
> fatal: error in sideband demultiplexer
>
> Do you know what to do to recover this situation?

Thanks for reporting this. I have verified that there are no problems
in the actual repository (at least none that a regular clone or fsck
pick up), and performing this operation against an anongit mirror does
not reproduce the issue.

A quick search for this error message leads to -
http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg201191.html
This indicates that it is likely a bug in the protocol exchange
between the Git client and server process, probably exposed by the
newer version of Git (1.8.1.4) we are now running on git.kde.org.

I would suggest running this against anongit.kde.org for now.

I'll also note to the author of releaseme that performing a shallow
clone is quite an expensive way to get a tarball of the sources - both
git.kde.org itself and our anongit mirrors have the archive service
enabled, which is much more efficient for completing this operation.

Shallow clones are unfortunately quite buggy depending on the version
of Git in use (aborting a shallow clone process can often cause hung
processes on the server side for instance, especially when it is done
over http) and are not recommended for use.

>
> Regards,
> Stephane

Regards,
Ben Cooksley
KDE Sysadmin

>
> Le 23/03/2013 03:46, Ben Cooksley a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> git.kde.org should now be online and operational again.
>
> As the canonical copy of the repositories stored by it was corrupted
> in certain parts, we have restored all repositories from another
> system.
> To the best of our knowledge no commits have been lost, however it is
> still possible they were lost. In this case, please repush the
> commits.
>
> Please be aware that the anongit mirrors will need time to rebuild, as
> will KDE Projects and Quickgit.
> If you find any problems with git.kde.org, please inform us immediately.
>
> Our apologies for the inconvenience, we will be analysing the causes
> of this to avoid repeats in the future.
>
> Regards,
> Ben Cooksley
> KDE Sysadmin
>
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