[libvirt] GITHUB readonly mirror site

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 03:20:12PM -0400, Charlie Drage wrote:
> Awesome!
> 
> Although seems that my favorite repo is blank at the moment, any ideas
> about *ruby-libvirt*?

Yeah, there are a couple of repos that I have some trouble pushing
due to bad historical commits that are now rejected :-(


In cimtest.git

remote: error: object e710038e2b044a2ed12e0abfe814f046880186f2:invalid author/committer line - missing space before email        
remote: fatal: Error in object        
error: pack-objects died of signal 13
error: pack-objects died with strange error
error: failed to push some refs to 'git at gitlab.com:libvirt/cimtest.git'
remote: error: object e710038e2b044a2ed12e0abfe814f046880186f2:invalid author/committer line - missing space before email        
remote: fatal: Error in object        
error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit


In libvirt-ocaml.git

remote: error: object fe513a732d629995ec22cfaa195a5ab8e499bceb:invalid author/committer line - bad date        
remote: fatal: Error in object        
error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit
To git at gitlab.com:libvirt/libvirt-ocaml.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (unpacker error)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git at gitlab.com:libvirt/libvirt-ocaml.git'
remote: error: object fe513a732d629995ec22cfaa195a5ab8e499bceb:invalid author/committer line - bad date        
remote: fatal: Error in object        
error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit
To git at github.com:libvirtproject/libvirt-ocaml.git


And in ruby-libvirt.git

remote: error: object acb8c8a2c6b3b33cf02c4f03eeb8bc0b803e6b24:invalid author/committer line - bad date        
remote: fatal: Error in object        
error: pack-objects died of signal 13
error: pack-objects died with strange error
error: failed to push some refs to 'git at gitlab.com:libvirt/ruby-libvirt.git'
remote: error: object acb8c8a2c6b3b33cf02c4f03eeb8bc0b803e6b24:invalid author/committer line - bad date        
remote: fatal: Error in object        
error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit


I've been reading up online and AFAICT, the only way to fix this is to
re-write GIT history entirely in the affected repos. This doesn't change
the content, but it'll invalidate everyone's current checkouts :-(

Perhaps these 3 modules are niche / small enough that we're fine rewriting
history....or maybe Eric knows another workaround ?

Regards,
Daniel
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