Server fails to update refs to new commit upon push, intermittently.

otac0n / WebGitNet

WebGit .NET is an ASP.NET MVC app that provides access to your git repositories over HTTP. It supports browsing in a web browser AND push / pull over Git's "Smart HTTP protocol".

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Server fails to update refs to new commit upon push, intermittently. #39

Closed otac0n closed 11 years ago

otac0n commented 12 years ago

I don't have a good repro case yet, but every once in a while, the remote repository fails to update a ref to point to the pushed commit.

It accepts the commits just find, and pushing the commits to a new branch also succeds. But even after that, the old branch will not update.

otac0n commented 12 years ago

In at least one case, this was caused by file permissions. The refs/heads/master file was owned by "Administrators" instead of "NETWORK SERVICE". How it got that way is unclear, but it could be due to a backup/restore issue.

If this is the case, the error should be logged on the server and, if possible, on the client.

otac0n commented 11 years ago

I have not seen this happen anywhere since I opened the issue. Based on this, I am going to conclude that there was a process on the machine that was interfering. While the error reporting is not ideal, the issue can be closed, since nobody else is experiencing the same behavior.