Re: linux-next: error while fetching the spi-nor tree

[Cyrille Pitchen]

Hi all,

+ MTD maintainers

Le 12/12/2017 Ã 23:53, Linus Torvalds a ÃcritÂ:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Cyrille Pitchen
> <cyrille.pitchen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I don't see anything wrong when fetching the tree or when browsing the
>> web server:
>> http://git.infradead.org/l2-mtd.git/shortlog/refs/heads/spi-nor/next
> 
> There's definitely something funky there.
> 
>   http://git.infradead.org/l2-mtd.git/commitdiff/f3203415105860e811f4ee9508efd009c9e6525e
>   http://git.infradead.org/l2-mtd.git/commitdiff/7a6843af9089b01eab266bbee0ed19f98f09a94a
> 
> both show "no differences found". I suspect that's because of git diff
> failing due to missing objects.
> 
> Most likely reason? Something like an unsafe garbage collect / prune
> operation at infradead.org at the same time as you pushed. I don't
> know what infradead.org does, but you can definitely do bad things
> maintaining a git tree.
> 
> I would suggest doing a force-push back to some known-good state, and
> then pushing it out again.
> 
> Ie, something like
> 
>     git push --force infradead.org:l2-mtd.git v4.15-rc1:master
> 
> to reset the master branch to v4.15-rc1, and then pushing out again.
> And then asking whoever maintains the infradead git trees if something
> odd happened..
>

I think I've fixed the issue following your advice.
However I don't know what happened to these old commits.
I've added MTD in Cc if they have some idea.

Anyway, sorry for this mess and thanks for your help!

Best regards,

Cyrille

 
>               Linus
>