It's a bare repo and I didn't realize server-side reflogs were a thing. Just ran "git config core.logallrefupdates true" in the repo on the server which seems to be what I should do to enable that. The server does know about B, it shows up when you do "git show B". However "git branch --contains B" returns nothing. The filesystem is ext4 on linux. It's on a virtual machine in our own datacenter. It's not an NFS share or anything like that, there is definitely only one server accessing the filesystem at a time. Gitlab's update hook maintains an event log when any push event happens, who pushed and which commits. The most recent time this happened, the first push which was lost occured at 2014-03-24 19:04:51 and the one that overwrote it happened at 2014-03-24 19:05:04. That's when the update hook ran, not necessarily when the user hit "git push", but it is notable that it's 13 seconds apart which is a pretty long time. We do run several hooks for checking coding syntax and various other things so it's believable to me that the hooks would take more than 13 seconds on occasion, but based on the testing I did with the sleep hook it didn't seem like the hooks were actually the problem. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Scott Sandler <scott.m.sandler@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Both pushes are >> determined to be fast-forwards and both succeed, but B' overwrites B >> and B is no longer on origin/master. The server does have B in its >> .git directory but the commit isn't on any branch. > > Is the reflog enabled on the server? If so, does it say anything about B > and B'? > > What filesystem do you use on the server? Is there any kind of NFS, and > if so are you sure that there's only one machine accessing the > filesystem at the same time? > > -- > Matthieu Moy > http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html