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From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
To: "Yngve N. Pettersen" <yngve@vivaldi.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git error message "Server does not allow request for unadvertised object"
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 08:27:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EE73235-F418-465D-9313-912F7B5AC8F9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.0ks2w7r1pvqxoc@rowan.vivaldi>

Hello Yngve,

> Le 18 mai 2020 à 05:20, Yngve N. Pettersen <yngve@vivaldi.com> a écrit :
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> A while back I reported an issue to the Windows Git project <https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2218> that I observed in Git for Windows 2.21.
> 
> The error message "Server does not allow request for unadvertised object" is reported when a commit updating a submodule pointer points to a commit that does not exist in the repository for that submodule, even if later commits in the branch points to a commit that do exist in the submodule repo.
> 
> This circumstance can easily occur if a developer (e.g)
> 
> * interactively rebases a branch "foo" in the submodule (e.g to integrate commits from another branch before a larger rebase)
> * commits the resulting submodule pointer "A" in the branch to the parent repo
> * then do further rebasing in the submodule, e.g to move up on top of the "bar" branch
> * commits that pointer "B" to the parent repo
> * forgets to squash the history in the parent repo
> * pushes the updated submodule "foo" branch to the online repo. (NOTE: "B" is pushed, not "A")
> * pushes the parent module branch to its online repo
> 
> When the parent repo is pulled by another developer, or an autobuild system, the fetch operation fails with the message "Server does not allow request for unadvertised object". A second fetch will complete successfully.
> 
> IMO this kind of check should only happen if a commit with pointer to a missing submodule is actively checked out. At most the above message should be a warning, not a fatal error.

I think that's a good idea. 

Another thing that I find confusing with this message is that it can be taken to mean that the server does not support fetching "unadvertised objects", i.e. `uploadpack.allow{Tip,Reachable,Any}SHA1InWant` is false, when in fact the object is simply inexistent...

Philippe.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-25 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-18  9:20 Git error message "Server does not allow request for unadvertised object" Yngve N. Pettersen
2020-05-25 12:27 ` Philippe Blain [this message]
2020-09-06 12:47 ` Yngve N. Pettersen
2021-09-01 12:04   ` Yngve N. Pettersen

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