Re: Gnus Git repository info and comitters: need updated password

[Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+ding@gate450.dyndns.org>]

I wrote:

> I also inadvertently wiped all the tags from the git.gnus.org repository
> during my first push

I'm still puzzling over the 170k line shell/libcurl/WebDAV log[1] on what
exactly happened.  Here's a recap:

"git ls-remote origin" had sensible output before the push,
listing >600 refs.

,----
| $ git-push --dry-run origin master
| Fetching remote heads...
|   refs/tags/
|   refs/heads/
|   refs/
| updating 'refs/heads/master'
|   from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
|   to   9354070bf91eb7a0fa030e8c400a23862c1f874e
| Updating remote server info
`----

That 000... seemed strange, but I dismissed it as an artifact of the --dry-run

,----
| $ git-push origin master
| Fetching remote heads...
|   refs/tags/
|   refs/heads/
|   refs/
| updating 'refs/heads/master'
|   from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
|   to   9354070bf91eb7a0fa030e8c400a23862c1f874e
|   C-c C-cRemoving remote locks...
|  -> 130
`----

After about five minutes of no apparent progress I decided to restart
with debug output enabled.

,----
| $ GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git-push -v origin master
| [ 10k lines of debug output stripped ]
`----

After completion, ls-remote listed 2 instead of > 600 refs:

,----
| $ git ls-remote origin
| 9354070bf91eb7a0fa030e8c400a23862c1f874e	HEAD
| 9354070bf91eb7a0fa030e8c400a23862c1f874e	refs/heads/master
`----

The repository I pushed from[2] still contained all tags and heads,
while a freshly cloned one confirmed their lack on git.gnus.org.

I can't find anything in the git manuals that explains the disappearance
of the refs... Am I missing something here?  Hard to believe that
Control-C could cause something like that...

Well, I tried to fix it by explicitly pushing tags and branches:

,----
| GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git-push -v --tags origin master
| GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git-push -v origin origin/*:refs/heads/*
`----

"ls-remote" now listed > 600 refs again, and a fresh clone came with
tags and branches again.

When taking a closer look at the files on http://git.gnus.org/gnus.git
today, I noticed that there is still something amiss: The refs only seem
to exist in the info/refs file.  the refs/{heads,tags} directories are
completely empty.  To my limited git knowledge, this is not a healthy
state since local accesses will not see any refs and wipe the refs in
info/refs on the next run of git-update-server-info.

Maybe this was already the case before my first push and the reason for
the strange behavior of git?

According to the WebDAV-communication[3], the refs/ directory should be
populated by now.  Ted: do you have something in your server logs that
explains why there are no files despite the server's "HTTP/1.1 201
Created" responses?

regards,
andreas

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://gate450.dyndns.org/~andreas/push-debug.txt.gz

[2]  http://gate450.dyndns.org/~andreas/gnus.git

[3]  example:
    > LOCK /gnus.git/refs/heads/v5-10 HTTP/1.1
    User-Agent: git/1.5.6.5
    Host: git.gnus.org
    Accept: */*
    Timeout: Second-600
    Content-Type: text/xml
    Content-Length: 235
    Expect: 100-continue

    < HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
    < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    < Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:58:11 GMT
    < Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.3.10-22
    < Lock-Token: <opaquelocktoken:bf9f18ba-1dd1-11b2-8b53-fb971bf9ad33>
    < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    < Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
    < 
    * Expire cleared
    * Connection #0 to host git.gnus.org left intact
    * Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host git.gnus.org
    * Connected to git.gnus.org (80.91.231.55) port 443 (#0)
    * Server auth using Basic with user 'ansel'
    > PUT /gnus.git/refs/heads/v5-10 HTTP/1.1
    User-Agent: git/1.5.6.5
    Host: git.gnus.org
    Accept: */*
    If: (<opaquelocktoken:bf9f18ba-1dd1-11b2-8b53-fb971bf9ad33>)
    Content-Length: 41
    Expect: 100-continue

    < HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
    < HTTP/1.1 201 Created
    < Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:58:12 GMT
    < Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.3.10-22
    < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
    < 
    * Expire cleared
    * Connection #0 to host git.gnus.org left intact
        done
    * Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host git.gnus.org
    * Connected to git.gnus.org (80.91.231.55) port 443 (#0)
    * Server auth using Basic with user 'ansel'
    > UNLOCK /gnus.git/refs/heads/v5-10 HTTP/1.1
    User-Agent: git/1.5.6.5
    Host: git.gnus.org
    Accept: */*
    Lock-Token: <opaquelocktoken:bf9f18ba-1dd1-11b2-8b53-fb971bf9ad33>

    < HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
    < Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:58:12 GMT
    < Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.3.10-22
    < Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
    <