Oscar,
Thanks for reporting this. Gitorious keeps a list of reserved names for
projects and repositories (lib/gitorious/reservations.rb) - the names you're
suggesting should be added there.
We have a bug tracker now at https://issues.gitorious.org/ - would you mind
reporting this bug there?
Cheers,
- Marius
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:27 AM, oscar schneider wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently discoverd a problem with gitorious when I created a
> repository called "users".
>
> This leads to gitorious creating the repository but when this is
> completetd and I am redirected to repository's website I get this
> error:
>
> Sorry, page not found
> The page you were looking for does not exist. You may have mistyped,
> or the page could be moved.
>
> I encountered this on a private installation but the same happens at
> gitorious.org
>
> The same hold true for repository names such as "groups" and probably
> all table names in the gitorious DB. Only a repository "repositories"
> doesn't result in a "page not found" message, since
> https://gitorious/projectname/repositories is already a reserved route
> displaying all repos in that project. Nonetheless it is not possible
> to edit the repository.
>
> Possible mitigation: Check repository names before creating them and
> if they match any of the reserved words (table names, routes) and
> notify the user that he/she should choose a different name for the
> repository. Maybe projects are also affected, but I do not want to try
> to create a project with a title like "users" because it already took
> me quite some time to figure out how to clean up after creating only a
> repository with that name.
>
> It is not possible to delete such repositories through the web
> interface (well, besides deleting the entire project, which might not
> be an option sometimes).
>
> I am not a huge rails pro in any way but I managed to delete the
> repository via the rails console, but this is where my trouble
> started, because then my dashboard could not be viewed since "users"
> was in my favorites list, thus one of my favorites was now nil.
> Therefore I got this error via mail:
>
> A ActionView::TemplateError occurred in site#index:
>
> undefined method `user' for nil:NilClass
> On line #131 of app/views/site/dashboard.html.erb
>
>128:
>129:
>130: <% @favorites.each do |favorite| %>
>131:
>132: <%= link_to_watchable(favorite) -%>
>133:
>134: <% end %>
>
> I managed to solve this by deleting the repo from my favorites list.
> However it was also necessary to remove other references to that
> repository. In my case, the repository was owned by a group/team, thus
> trying to open the homepage of that team also resulted in a Page Not
> Found. This results in an error like this:
>
> A NoMethodError occurred in groups#show:
>
> undefined method `project_id' for nil:NilClass
> [RAILS_ROOT]/app/models/group.rb:85:in `all_related_project_ids'
>
> Here is a short howto for getting rid of the "evil" repository:
>
> 1. Login to your gitorious instance
> 2. Switch user to the one owning gitorious, in my case git: sudo su
> git
> 3. Switch to the directory where the gitorious code is: git@gitorious:
> cd ~/gitorious/current
> 4. Start the rails console: RAILS_ENV=production /usr/local/bin/
> gitorious_ruby script/console
> 5. evil = Repository.find_by_name "users" (note the repository id for
> evil, you might need it later)
> 6. evil.delete
> 7. a = event.last
> 8. a.delete
> 9. g = Group.find_by_name "groupname"
> 10. If the evil repository is the newest for that group:
> g.committerships = g.committerships - [g.committerships[-1]]
> 11. g.repository_ids = g.repository_ids - [ (repo id of evil
> repository) ]
> 12. g.save
> 13. p = Project.find_by_title "affected_proj"
> 14. p.repository_ids = g.repository_ids - [ (repo id of evil
> repository) ]
> 15. p.save
>
> This should be it.
>
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