Hi,
I'm a bit puzzled. I have a bare repository, somehow without any files
in refs/heads.
It started using conversion from CVS via SVN using git-1.5.3.4. It is
configured for group access and there are a number of SSH accounts on
the machine in the proper group using git-shell for fellow developers.
I never have any problems, but after upgrading to git-git (1.5.6.rc3)
fellow users get error:
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/JPL31
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/V57X
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/V5_4_patches
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/XML_UNICODE
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/attvar
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/gmp
Creating a new account and doing a fresh clone I even got the fatal
error there are no remote branches!? Still, using my own user id, I
could do anything I wanted. I checked permissions to see whether there
are differences between group and owner permissions, but couldn't find
anything suspicious. git fsck --full on the repo gives no errors.
It turns out the directory refs/heads is empty!?
I made a fresh clone of the repo as myself, creating all references
nicely in refs/remotes/origin. Then I copied these files to refs/heads
into the main bare repository and now all appears to work nicely again.
Still, this is a bit worrying ... My questions:
* Is my work-around safe and sound?
* How can this have happened?
* Why can I clone as myself and not as anyone else!? Stranger:
after a "sudo -u <someone> /bin/bash" I could not clone. I can
copy the entire tree using cp -a, but I still cannot clone the
copy with this user, while as myself I can clone the copy.
Somehow `as myself' appears to get the branchheads from somewhere.
There is only one copy of git installed, so both users use the
same. What can cause this difference?
Thanks --- Jan
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