I just created a new repo with Gitolite, and another user can successfully clone, commit, push and pull from that.
The repo is brand new and contains one file only. Oddly enough, I can't clone it on my own machine. All I get is what follows:
$ git clone ssh://gitolite@remoteserver/myrepo.git
Cloning into 'myrepo'...
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(SSH welcome message here)
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fatal: object 44df53e172de1448b139674fefb6ced3b1ddbfcb is corrupted
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
How can an object be corrupted in a brand new repo?!? Besides, I'm working with several other repos that I cloned from the very same remote machine, never had a problem like this.
Of course I can start over, create a new repo, copy the file there and go on, but I'd like to understand why this happens.
Thank you!
I think I have to answer my own question after reading this.
I already had performed a git fsck On the remote repo (myrepo.git directory), no luck. Then I performed a
git fsck --full 44df53e172de1448b139674fefb6ced3b1ddbfcb
git repack
and everything worked again.
Question should stay open, actually, because I can't figure out yet why on earth this could happen.
:-)