Invalid characters in ref or filename when pushing

[Christopher Hunt]

Thanks for providing gitolite.

I have now installed it and all appears to be well except that I
cannot push to it given a repo I've migrated from svn. Specifically
when I try to push I receive the messages:

remote: invalid characters in ref or filename: refs/tags/Airport%20GML
%20Model-1.0.0
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/tags/Airport%20GML
%20Model-1.0.0

Can you please advise on how I may circumvent this issue. Thanks for
any help.

Kind regards,
Christopher

[Sitaram Chamarty]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Christopher Hunt <hun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for providing gitolite.
>
> I have now installed it and all appears to be well except that I
> cannot push to it given a repo I've migrated from svn. Specifically
> when I try to push I receive the messages:
>
> remote: invalid characters in ref or filename: refs/tags/Airport%20GML
> %20Model-1.0.0
> remote: error: hook declined to update refs/tags/Airport%20GML
> %20Model-1.0.0

(1) change the tag name not to use "%"

or (2) see the last section ("constants that aren't") in
http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/rc.html for how to change the
patterns to allow additional characters. The one you want for this
specific case is GL_REF_OR_FILENAME_PATT

If you choose option 2, you'd better know what you're doing, although
% seems to be harmless enough I guess.

[Christopher Hunt]

Thanks for the reply. I might try the second approach given that I've
got many hundreds of tags with the URL encoding and thus % character
appearing. Thanks again.

[Sitaram Chamarty]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Vassil Keremidchiev <var...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> We have problems with brackets in file names during pushing. With message
> like this:
> remote: FATAL: invalid characters in ref or filename:
> 'VREF/NAME/research/project/structs (1).cpp'
>
> Brackets are not incorrect characters for GIT or OS.
> Are there updates for Gitolite to fix this issue?

No, but it's not needed. Here's how you can solve it yourself.

Look at line 49 of src/lib/Gitolite/Rc.pm, where the variable
$REF_OR_FILENAME_PATT is defined. Replicate it at the end [1] of your
rc file (~/.gitolite.rc) then change it how you like. In your case
I'd add '()' just after the second '[' in the expression.

That's it.

[1]: i.e., *outside* the definition of the %RC hash

[Vassil Keremidchiev]

This does not solve our problem. In the settings we have something like:
repo testing
RW = admin

RW VREF/NAME/ = admin
- VREF/NAME/ = admin

and only on VREF/NAME/ it is doing that problem. Normally it is working for all other files. And if last two lines are not used then it is working Okay.

[Sitaram Chamarty]

try the attached patch and let me know if it works for you...

> --
>
>



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Sitaram

[Vassil Keremidchiev]

07 ноември 2011, понеделник, 21:42:17 UTC+2, Christopher Hunt написа:

Great! With this patch it is working like a charm!
Thank You very much! Gitolite is great software!