Package: git Version: 1:2.11.0-4 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainers,
Git 2.11.0 introduced a regression when pushing to a local repository whose pathname contains a colon. I have verified that this regression has been fixed upstream in Git 2.11.1 and 2.12.0. Unfortunately the version that is in testing which will become stable exhibits this bug. This makes the package unusable for me for one project I work on, the only workaround is to run a locally built git binary. But colons in pathnames are admittedly rare. I suspect the upstream commit that fixes this is https://github.com/git/git/commit/cf3c6352100a, I have not verified yet. Minimal working example: ## Make a root commit ... git init testrepo cd testrepo echo one > README git add . git commit -a -m "Initial commit" cd .. ## ... convert it to a bare repo with a colon in the name ... git clone --bare testrepo testrepo.git rm -rf testrepo mv testrepo.git test:repo.git ## ... hack, push a commit to origin, error occurs git clone test:repo.git testrepo cd testrepo echo two > README git add . git commit -a -m "Second commit" git push origin master The error message: remote: error: object directory /path/to/test does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates. remote: error: object directory repo.git/objects does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates. remote: error: object directory /path/to/test does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates. remote: error: object directory repo.git/objects does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates. remote: error: refs/heads/master does not point to a valid object! remote: fatal: bad object HEAD error: object directory /path/to/test does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates. error: object directory repo.git/objects does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates. error: refs/heads/master does not point to a valid object! fatal: bad object HEAD -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages git depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii git-man 1:2.11.0-4 ii libc6 2.24-10 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.52.1-5 ii liberror-perl 0.17024-1 ii libexpat1 2.2.0-2 ii libpcre3 2:8.39-3 ii perl 5.24.1-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages git recommends: ii less 481-2.1 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.4p1-10 ii patch 2.7.5-1+b2 Versions of packages git suggests: ii gettext-base 0.19.8.1-2 pn git-arch <none> pn git-cvs <none> pn git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit <none> ii git-doc 1:2.11.0-4 pn git-el <none> pn git-email <none> pn git-gui <none> pn git-mediawiki <none> ii git-svn 1:2.11.0-4 pn gitk <none> pn gitweb <none> -- no debconf information
