I wonder if it's possible that cloning failed after creating a blank
repository; maybe there's a verbose flag for clone that could help?  I'm
afraid I don't know the Fossil internals well enough to go much farther
from here, though.


On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Tomek Kott <[email protected]>wrote:

> Bill,
>
> Nothing is shown in the timeline besides the "initial commit" entry, and
> no files are shown in the browser. Manually going to artifact pages also
> results in nothing.
>
> I also want to clarify that I am in no way trying to rush this: I have
> access to (two) full repos. I just want to diagnose the cloning process /
> private repo process for future use.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomek
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:30:18 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Corrupt cloning of private repo
>
>
> What happens with you open a UI on it?
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Tomek Kott <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> It's been a while since I set up a private repo (see
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05451.html)
> online, and needed to set a new one up from a fossil repo with four
> commits. I used fossil ui to set it up locally (removing all permissions
> except 's' for my own user) before moving it over to the server.
>
> I then clone the repo (using the user/pass combo with 's' permissions) on
> a (different) local machine, and it appears to have downloaded the entire
> repo correctly: the size of the repo is 12 MB or so in both cases. I check
> 'fossil time' on this repo, and only the "initial commit" comment is
> visible.  Opening the repo results in absolutely no files.
>
> I am a bit confused how this is happening, since the repo itself since to
> be the full size (and not just an empty size). I also tried adding the
> "clone" permission ('g') to the online user, re-cloning, but still no help.
> Also tried a "fossil rebuild" on the repo, with no help.
>
> As I was writing, I realized I could do the following. I have both repos
> (now 'file copied' from server to local) sitting side by side. It appears
> that some of the blobs in the cloned repo have a 3rd column (size?) set to
> 0 or -1, of which there are none in the original repo. The SHA1 hashes line
> up, but there clearly is an error in the way things are being transfered
> over.
>
> The server is a commercial, hosted server running apparently 64bit linux,
> for which I (during testing) updated to a locally built copy and hence is
> running the tip: version 4e66a96. The local machine is a 64bit Windows 7
> with version 1.23 (957b17).
>
> Are there any tests I can perform? I've tried recloning several times, and
> it appears that the same errors are coming out each time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomek
>
> _______________________________________________
> fossil-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
>
> _______________________________________________
> fossil-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
>
>
_______________________________________________
fossil-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Reply via email to