[cdt-dev] Notes on git

[James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

The git for computer scientists document is really good for understanding what's going on in git:

http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/

I installed the release candidate egit from:

http://download.eclipse.org/egit/staging/v1.0.0.201106081625-r/

The test repository, for committers, is:

   ssh://<commiter_id>@git.eclipse.org/gitroot/cdt/test2/org.eclipse.cdt.git/

(Note this URL is different from the http URL: http://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/test2/org.eclipse.cdt.git/)

The password is your portal password.

I wasn't able to reproduce the soft reset issue Doug had in the call: reset --soft changed the HEAD, but didn't change the working copy

I did however get the same error on push.

 An internal Exception occurred during push: ssh://jblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/gitroot/cdt/test2/org.eclipse.cdt.git/: error occurred during unpacking on the remote end: unpack-objects abnormal exit

Command line git is more helpful:

Counting objects: 21, done.

Delta compression using up to 8 threads.

Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.

Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 755 bytes, done.

Total 11 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)

error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database ./objects

fatal: failed to write object

error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit

To ssh://jblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/gitroot/cdt/test2/org.eclipse.cdt.git/

 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))

error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://jblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/gitroot/cdt/test2/org.eclipse.cdt.git/'

Doug, how did you create the central repo?  Did you pass '--shared' to git init?  It's possible that Mark is the only one who can push at the moment ;)

Cheers,

James