Commits counted double

Hi Peter,

Congratulations! Of all the bug reports we get in the forums, this is the hardest to debug! :-)

Almost certainly, something has gone wrong in our incremental updater, causing it to re-import commits. I was hoping these bugs were gone forever, but I am not so lucky.

We'll probably need to re-download the project from scratch (sigh -- it's a big download), and I'll try to root out the cause of the problem.

Thanks for the report. :-)

Robin

I'm optimistic that whatever bug caused the doubled commits in qemu has already been fixed. We had some trouble with this in the past, so older reports on Ohloh might still have some lingering doubles. I thought we had re-analyzed all of them, but they're a bit hard to track down.

We do have some safeguards in place now to detect doubles, but since it's entirely possible that there really are two consecutive commits with the same comment and files changed (this frequently happens when someone forgets a minor fix or unwinds a change), we can't be draconian about it.

I'll run a reimport of qemu, which should clear up the duplicates. If we get duplicates on new commits, that's scary.

Thanks, Robin

Hi Peter,

I've been trying various things to try to restore the report to a correct state.

First, I tried a complete new download of the project. Quite mysteriously, the result was an empty report with 0 commits and 0 lines of code. I felt that this was incorrect :-).

So while I investigate the reason for this, I tried simply re-analyzing our previous download. The commits are still doubled, so it looks like the problem will indeed require a full download to fix. I'll give it another go.

The re-download is still ongoing. It's probably going to take a few more days.