Package: myrepos Version: 1.20180726 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
An error is returned when running "mr register" on a bare git repository that has no refs/tags or refs/heads directory. $ git clone --bare --quiet https://github.com/beancount/beancount-mode.git $ cd beancount-mode.git $ rmdir refs/tags $ mr register mr register: unknown repository type In my case my repositories are stored that way on disk, perhaps because I'm using GitLab which seems to aggressively prefer packed-refs [1] instead for example. I checked the git reference documentation (gitrepository-layout [2], etc.) and was unable to find anything defining the directories under refs/ as required instead of optional, but git seems to work fine with an empty refs directory, lazily creating things under refs/ if they are missing. However having a missing refs/ directory entirely is not OK: $ rm -rf refs $ git log --oneline -1 fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git A patch is attached that loosens the git_bare test (and vcsh) to not require heads nor tags under refs, but instead simply require a refs folder in addition to the other heuristics used for detecting a git repository. This appears to have been added in c20b454a225407e5c6b918cbb6e739b888b252ab when handling of git bare repositories was separated out. [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-pack-refs [2] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrepository-layout *** 0001-Fix-detection-of-git-bare-repositories-with-no-tags-.patch From: Jacob Greenleaf <ja...@jacobgreenleaf.com> Origin: other Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 19:35:41 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Fix detection of git bare repositories with no tags or heads refs dirs --- mr | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mr b/mr index 056e749..26d9300 100755 --- a/mr +++ b/mr @@ -2501,11 +2501,11 @@ hg_test = perl: -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/.hg" darcs_test = perl: -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/_darcs" fossil_test = perl: -f "$ENV{MR_REPO}/_FOSSIL_" || -f "$ENV{MR_REPO}/.fslckout" git_bare_test = perl: - -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/refs/heads" && -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/refs/tags" && + -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/refs" && -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/objects" && -f "$ENV{MR_REPO}/config" && `GIT_CONFIG="$ENV{MR_REPO}"/config git config --get core.bare` =~ /true/ vcsh_test = perl: - -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/refs/heads" && -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/refs/tags" && + -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/refs" && -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/objects" && -f "$ENV{MR_REPO}/config" && `GIT_CONFIG="$ENV{MR_REPO}"/config git config --get vcsh.vcsh` =~ /true/ veracity_test = perl: -d "$ENV{MR_REPO}/.sgdrawer" -- 2.30.2 -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.6 APT prefers bullseye APT policy: (500, 'bullseye') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages myrepos depends on: ii perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u2 Versions of packages myrepos recommends: ii libfile-homedir-perl 1.006-1 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.75-1+b1 ii libio-pty-easy-perl 0.10-1.1 ii libwww-perl 6.52-1 Versions of packages myrepos suggests: pn ack | ack-grep <none> pn bzr <none> ii curl 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7 pn cvs <none> pn darcs <none> pn dgit <none> pn fossil <none> ii git [git-core] 1:2.30.2-1+deb11u2 pn git-annex <none> pn git-big-picture <none> pn git-svn <none> pn gitk | tig <none> pn kdesdk-scripts <none> ii liburi-perl 5.08-1 pn mercurial <none> pn perl-doc <none> pn stow <none> pn subversion <none> pn subversion-tools <none> pn unison <none> pn vcsh <none> ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1 -- no debconf information
