Having for a long time been thoroughly annoyed by our strict umasks, I

decided to write a little program to deal with it, and naturally I put

it in a git repo. After the initial commit

(c0fa1db09bad112f7271378d907bf33d74c06f6b) I published it to my git

space on our development server and cloned it out again (to get the

nifty remotes things set up for free).
Then I noticed I had rushed it, as I usually do with hacks involving a

total of less than 200 lines of code, so I had to make a couple of more

commits to make it work.
After having pushed the fixes to the public site I went to have a look

at it in gitweb, at https://devel.op5.se/~exon/git/
I was quite surprised to find that 'master' was still pointing to the

root commit. After the usual culprits were excluded (permissions, bad

paths, whatnot), I decided to try to clone the repo again to a different

location.
Here's what happened:
devel!exon:~$ git clone softpub/mkpub.git/ mkpub

remote: Generating pack...

remote: Done counting 17 objects.

remote: Deltifying 17 objects.

remote:  100% (17/17) done

Indexing 17 objects.

remote: Total 17 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)

  100% (17/17) done

Resolving 3 deltas.
devel!exon:~$ cat softpub/mkpub.git/refs/heads/master

c0fa1db09bad112f7271378d907bf33d74c06f6b

devel!exon:~$ cat mkpub/.git/refs/heads/master

5ba01a4709bcc8b482b207ba91d78ddb689a4091

devel!exon:~$ cd mkpub/

devel!exon:~/mkpub$ git push

Everything up-to-date

devel!exon:~/mkpub$ git rev-list master

5ba01a4709bcc8b482b207ba91d78ddb689a4091

e6a80831737517aa7ef29628429a18935b71de1d

8926e1519f69d95685ab5252886e7b237e21108e

c0bfedaf572ee550af7927acb89a1a2e01c1ef2c

c0fa1db09bad112f7271378d907bf33d74c06f6b

devel!exon:~/mkpub$ GIT_DIR=../softpub/mkpub.git/ git rev-list master

c0fa1db09bad112f7271378d907bf33d74c06f6b
(yes, the repo only has 4 commits)
And that's where I am now. Note that *cloning* from the repo actually

works, although I can't for the life of me figure out why.
Any thoughts?
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scratch this. I just noticed I had somehow managed to get the directory

setup like this:
devel:softpub/mkpub.git       <-- a real repo

devel:softpub/mkpub.git/.git  <-- the repo that got pushed to
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se

OP5 AB                             www.op5.se

Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

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One's gotta wonder how that's ever a valid directory setup...
Although I'm running a configuration of:
  root/proj.git                        <-- a real repo

  root/proj.git/info/new-commit-check  <-- a fake repo
where new-commit-check has root/proj.git not only as an alternate

ODB but also has root/proj.git/refs symlinked into its own refs

directory.
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Shawn.

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