As some already posted in https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-February/106268.html the project's git history is broken. While this might look like a minor cosmetical problem it has severe impact on people who want to clone the repo to github. Those commits prevent the upload: $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa Cloning into 'mesa'... remote: Counting objects: 790257, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (117141/117141), done. remote: Total 790257 (delta 673546), reused 785057 (delta 669000) Receiving objects: 100% (790257/790257), 146.18 MiB | 3.67 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (673546/673546), done. Checking connectivity... done. Checking out files: 100% (4880/4880), done. $ cd mesa $ git remote rename origin upstream $ git remote add origin git@github.com:<user>/<repo>.git $ git push -u origin --tags Counting objects: 740005, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (113457/113457), done. remote: error: object feb356caff82e996ba0b898c02383fdfa3effc5f: missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space before date remote: fatal: Error in object error: pack-objects died of signal 13 error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:<user>/<repo>.git'
Looks like the R300_DRIVER_0 tag just needs to be deleted; it's one of the tags that doesn't really add any value anyway. Just deleting that would let you push. Brian, we already mirror Wayland to GitHub; would you like us to set up a Mesa mirror as well?
Unfortunately deleting the single tag does not help. There are 30 or more commits that are having that problem, see the list in the mentioned posting: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-February/106268.html BTW: xorg/lib/libX11 has the same problem, there are probably more repos with this error.
All of these are tags, specifically: before_upgrade_03_01_05 blended_fountain embedded-1-20030120 embedded-1-20030224 embedded-1-20030305 embedded-1-20030324 embedded-1-20030417 embedded-1-20030502 gliding_penguin jump_and_click kw-mesa-1 mesa-6_5-20060712 mesa_20050504 mesa_20050526 mesa_20050610 mesa_20050715 mesa_20060201 mesa_20060325 mesa_3_1 mesa_3_1_beta_3 mesa_3_2 mesa_3_2_1 mesa_3_2_beta_1 mesa_3_3 mesa_3_4 mesa_3_4_1 mesa_3_4_2 mesa_3_5 mesa_4_0 mesa_4_0_1 mesa_4_0_2 mesa_4_0_3 mesa_4_0_4 mesa_4_1 mesa_5_0 mesa_5_0_1 mesa_6_3 mesa_6_3_1 mesa_6_3_1_1 mesa_6_3_2 mesa_6_4 mesa_6_4_1 mesa_6_4_2 mesa_6_5 mesa_6_5_1 mesa_6_5_2 mesa_texman_20060210 noisy_cube red_tinted_cube rotating_gears shimmering_gears start texman_0_1_20060325 texman_0_1_20060330 texman_0_1_20060621 texman_0_1_20060705 texman_0_1_pre_ttm texmem_0_2_20060912 texmem_0_3_20060923 texmem_0_3_20060929 the_perfect_frag trunk_20040329 unichrome-last-xinerama vtx-0-2-21112003-freeze vtx-0-2-24112003 I would suggest that it's only the version tags (mesa_[3456]_*) which need to be preserved, and those can just be retagged to the same commit. The rest seem entirely deletable.
There is a bit more info (including a link to possible git fix) [1]. Fwiw I'm all for creating a mirror of mesa, libdrm and/or others on github, although the tags will need to be manually resolved. Afaics most/all of them are signed, thus removing them from fd.o will be impossible without rewriting git history ? [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2015-June/087904.html
(In reply to Daniel Stone from comment #1) > Brian, we already mirror Wayland to GitHub; would you like us to set up a > Mesa mirror as well? Just to serve as a backup? Sounds OK to me <shrug>.
(In reply to Brian Paul from comment #5) > (In reply to Daniel Stone from comment #1) > > Brian, we already mirror Wayland to GitHub; would you like us to set up a > > Mesa mirror as well? > > Just to serve as a backup? Sounds OK to me <shrug>. Both as a backup, and also to make it easier for people to fork/branch Mesa and submit back. (We disable most of the usual GH functionality, e.g. issues.
Some alternatives: A have a hardcoded filter when mirroring to Github? Can you move them to a non-default namespace like refs/broken/ ?
(In reply to Emil Velikov from comment #4) > There is a bit more info (including a link to possible git fix) [1]. Fwiw > I'm all for creating a mirror of mesa, libdrm and/or others on github, > although the tags will need to be manually resolved. Indeed. > Afaics most/all of them are signed, thus removing them from fd.o will be > impossible without rewriting git history ? Not that I'm aware of ... ? Tags are individual standalone Git objects, with no references to them other than requesting the list of tags from the server, so removing these objects has no effect on any other objects (the usual sense of rewriting history). It's true that the ones to be preserved would need to be recreated; from what I understand, this would require a manual force-fetch from users. > [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2015-June/087904.html Oh, interesting. I guess we could mostly wait it out: keep the tags on fd.o, and just not bother pushing them to GitHub. Deleting most of the r300 tags (red_tinted_cube) is probably sensible anyway, as I don't imagine anyone would want them ...
I've created https://github.com/mesa3d/mesa now with all the version tags/branches; happy to set up other repositories on request.
Well, thanks for that. However, that mirror's oldest release tag is mesa_6_5_3_rc2. I need mesa_6_4_1 for the stuff I am currently working on...
(In reply to Ulrich Sibiller from comment #10) > Well, thanks for that. However, that mirror's oldest release tag is > mesa_6_5_3_rc2. I need mesa_6_4_1 for the stuff I am currently working on... Those tags are missing whilst we figure out what to do with them. In the meantime, those commits are there (e.g. https://github.com/mesa3d/mesa/commit/53e595017e7f34a52117b1b7f731003c55a395c1), so you should be able to work with it.
Ok, thank you.
See https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/36 for information how we fixed it for libX11.git. Should work for Mesa, too, but has not been tried yet.
(In reply to Ulrich Sibiller from comment #13) > See https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/36 for information how we fixed it for > libX11.git. Should work for Mesa, too, but has not been tried yet. This would give people differing tags (and if signed, signed by different people) between GitHub and fd.o, which could well be enough to make people worry. We can't easily push these into fd.o either, because tags don't auto-update when you pull, and it would again look odd. I've raised a support request with GitHub to ask they relax this restriction, but there's not a lot we can do in the meantime that won't make people unnecessarily worried about the integrity of their repository.
All the old tags have now been pushed.
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