Re: Please check the current beta git conversions

On 2020-09-03 10:05, Steve Wills wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 9/1/20 1:14 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
>> We've been updating the svn-git converter and pushing out a new
>> converted repo every two weeks, and are now approaching the time where
>> we'd like to commit to the tree generated by the exporter, and
>> guarantee that hashes will remain consistent from this point. At this
>> point the Git Working Group believes the conversion represents a
>> high-fidelity translation of the Subversion history, but would
>> appreciate additional review in case we've missed anything.
>>
>> I'd ask folks with an interest in the FreeBSD repository to clone the
>> beta conversion and review the converted history in the specific areas
>> they are interested in - e.g., specific contrib/ software, device
>> drivers, etc. This will also present our final opportunity to change
>> the author map file, if necessary.
>>
>> The beta src tree can be cloned via:
>> % git clone https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/src.git freebsd-cgit-beta
>>
>> Please follow up this week if you notice any discrepancies or author
>> entries that require updates.
> 
> One issue that's been seen is adding this remote to an existing repo:
> 
> $ git remote add cgit-beta https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/ports.git
> $ git fetch cgit-beta
> error: RPC failed; HTTP 413 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 413
> fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
> 
> 413 is Payload too large
> 
> This is because when you fetch, you're telling the other end what hashes
> you have and it's figuring out what to send you, and that list is too
> large, over 10m, I guess:
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7489813/github-push-error-rpc-failed-result-22-http-code-413#15021750
> 
> 
> It's unclear if there's a way to tell the client to skip that and just
> fetch everything or if it's required to change the upload limit on the
> web server and if so how large would be appropriate/required.
> 
> Note fresh clone works fine.
> 
> Steve
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I have raised the client_max_body_size setting on the web server that
serves the git repo, and people report it is working now. You might
still hit this error if you have a lot of unrelated histories in your
checkout, but, this should solve the issue for most people.

-- 
Allan Jude