about 1 month ago
Hi!
The update of project 3599 ("Samba 4") failed again: "Step 2 of 3: Importing source code into database (Failed)"
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3599/enlistments
Robin, I hope our old problem with line counts intermixed with those of project "samba"... :-o
Cheers - Michael
about 1 month ago
Hi Michael,
Our git importer is not very good at handling merges or other changes to the repository that modify history. Basically, when the downloader finds additional commits with timestamps that predate commits we already have, our importer gets confused. It's just bad code on our end.
It's fixable with a brute re-import (but thankfully not a brute re-download), which unfortunately takes a lot of server juice, and won't scale to daily updates.
All of which means I have a pretty serious bug to fix. :-)
I'll get a new import started.
about 1 month ago
Hi Robin,
thanks for the explanations. Yes commits with older dates being merged or cherry-picked from private branches to our central repository are not so uncommon...
Thanks, Michael