So I ran into the same exact issue, except in OS X. The error was exactly
the same, I couldn't figure it out. Ran rbt post -d on one of my Linux
boxes, worked the first time. I have no idea why it didn't work in OS X,
but that's just my two cents.
On Thursday, 13 March 2014 07:53:18 UTC-6,
, 2014 1:57 PM
*To:* revie...@googlegroups.com javascript:
*Cc:* Javins, Walt
*Subject:* Re: Trouble posting diff to RB from git
Some follow-up:
I was able to do the following:
1) Create a release_feature_branch off of release_branch
2) Push the empty release_feature_branch to the remote
*Subject:* Re: Trouble posting diff to RB from git
Some follow-up:
I was able to do the following:
1) Create a release_feature_branch off of release_branch
2) Push the empty release_feature_branch to the remote host
3) Pull from the mirror that RB uses
4) Make my changes
Walt,
Thanks for your response. I was able to go to the mirror and run
git cat-file -t 955231e6e237f85a89db874fbc0fecb90fb9fa35
So it seems as though it is up-to-date. I have my tracking-branch set, but
tried unsetting it to see what would happen, and I got a very large diff.
I'm not sure I
Some follow-up:
I was able to do the following:
1) Create a release_feature_branch off of release_branch
2) Push the empty release_feature_branch to the remote host
3) Pull from the mirror that RB uses
4) Make my changes in the release_feature_branch
5) Check in my changes
6) Run rbt post
as the diff I’m creating is against a known point in
origin.
Walt
From: Steve Steele [mailto:stevewste...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 1:57 PM
To: reviewboard@googlegroups.com
Cc: Javins, Walt
Subject: Re: Trouble posting diff to RB from git
Some follow-up:
I was able to do the following
Hi Steve,
This is error is typically a sign that:
1) Review Board is set up with a local mirror for this git repo, and that
mirror is out of date (i.e. it doesn’t contain all the commits that your
‘authoratative’ git repo has)
2) The ‘tracking branch’ is otherwise invalid/not
