[Freeipa-devel] Adding indices and permissions to FreeIPA

[Petr Viktorin]

On 05/15/2012 03:29 PM, William Brown wrote:
> Hi simo
>
>> Hi William,
>> do you have a public repo you are pushing your work to ?
>> It would be nice to have early access so we can check your
>> implementation is in line with FreeIPA. It will allow your contribution
>> to get in more easily if we can comment early on around schema, DIT and
>> other behavior you need to implement.
>
> I haven't had much time to focus on this so far, So I only have a
> limited amount of work completed. It has mainly been learning the
> FreeIPA code, adding some skeleton files, and working out the schema.
>
> I have tried to push my work to my github from my branch, but I'm
> getting an error on push.
>
> git push github master
> Counting objects: 38943, done.
> Compressing objects: 100% (8100/8100), done.
> error: object 0b36ce6dcbfc8d7e6cda632e06a09c369428a2db:invalid
> author/committer line - bad date
> fatal: Error in object
> error: pack-objects died of signal 13
> error: failed to push some refs to
> 'git at github.com:Firstyear/FreeIPA-dhcp.git'
>
> That object appears to be.
>
> commit 0b36ce6dcbfc8d7e6cda632e06a09c369428a2db
> Merge: 451a28c a9e4e5a
> Author: Karl MacMillan<kmacmill at redhat.com>
> Date:   Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +0000
>
>      Merge.
>
> Any advice on this issue would be welcome. In the mean time, I'm happy
> to just send in formatted patches.

Unfortunately, there are some patches in the FreeIPA history that Github 
chokes on (most likely the problem is with the zero commit date). Since 
Git history is immutable, there's not much we can do now.

As a workaround, Bitbucket seems to work: 
https://bitbucket.org/encukou/freeipa


I'll contact Github about this later today.

-- 
Petr³