Can still push to old repo without error after moving to another namespace

Created by: klamontagne

I need to test this, but I had the problem in production where Gitolite would let me push to the old remote, but nothing was actually push in the project if I cloned it. It's strange that the old repo was available.

Created by: klamontagne

I patched the problem for current repos by rebuilding the whole gitolite config. I still have no clue why exactly it happened, but it may be because Resque was unavailable during the namespace move?

as git / gitolite:

    rm -rvf .gitolite repositories/gitolite-admin.git "repositories/*/*/gl-conf" "repositories/*/gl-conf"
    gitolite setup -pk ./gitlab.pub
    cp -v /home/gitlab/gitlabhq/lib/hooks/post-receive /home/git/.gitolite/hooks/common/post-receive ; chown -v gitolite.gitolite /home/git/.gitolite/hooks/common/post-receive

as gitlab:

    # stop gitlab
    cd /home/gitlab/gitlabhq
    mv tmp tmp2
    rm -rf tmp2 &
    bundle exec rake tmp:create RAILS_ENV=production
    RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake gitlab:gitolite:update_keys
    RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake gitlab:gitolite:update_repos
    bundle exec rake gitlab:enable_automerge RAILS_ENV=production
    # restart gitlab

By Administrator on 2013-01-16T15:35:34 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2013-01-16T15:35:34 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: Philzen

Same here, saw this behaviour after moving from 3.1 to 4.x. Also - when i rename a namespace the same thing happens, the old namespace is still on disk, the repositories are eventually duplicated.

Another way of fixing this is found on the new (now much better) help pages: my.gitlab.install/help/raketasks#cleanup. I executed all three in the order listed and now my repository folder is clean again.

bundle exec rake gitlab:cleanup:config RAILS_ENV=production
bundle exec rake gitlab:cleanup:dirs RAILS_ENV=production
bundle exec rake gitlab:cleanup:repos RAILS_ENV=production

Maybe this bug was supposed to be a feature, as security precaution in case anything goes kaboom when moving projects around on disk - however i feel this cleanup should be taken care of somehow in order not to litter the repository storage over time.

By Administrator on 2013-01-24T04:31:54 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2013-01-24T04:31:54 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: Philzen

@mikkyhouse - Shouldn't those cleanup tasks at least be mentioned in the Migration Wiki? Or was this fixed in a commit?

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T05:32:54 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T05:32:54 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

Its not reproducable with current master. Also its mentioned in GitLab help page

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T07:58:02 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T07:58:02 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: Philzen

Fair enough, thx for clarifying!

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T16:49:34 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T16:49:34 (imported from GitLab)