Can't fetch refs/meta/config

[Johan Martinsson]

Hi,

I'm trying tu update the refs/meta/config on a new project (toto). I cannot see the refs/meta/config branch :

toto> git pull gerrit.private:toto refs/meta/config

fatal: Couldn't find remote ref refs/meta/config

while getting the master is no problem.

toto> git pull gerrit.private:toto master

remote: Counting objects: 3, done

remote: Finding sources: 100% (3/3)

remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 3 (delta 0)

Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.

From gerrit.private:toto

 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD

I've tried it both on 2.5-rc0 and rc2

As a side information I also tried to push directly to the refs/meta/config branch, but I get "failed to lock"

toto> git push gerrit.private:toto HEAD:refs/meta/config

Counting objects: 3, done.

Delta compression using up to 2 threads.

Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.

Writing objects: 100% (2/2), 251 bytes, done.

Total 2 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

remote: Processing changes: refs: 1, done    

To gerrit.private:toto

 ! [remote rejected] HEAD -> refs/meta/config (failed to lock)

error: failed to push some refs to 'gerrit.private:toto'

[Lundh, Gustaf]

Are you sure the project has a refs/meta/config? If all the rights have been inherited from a parent project it may not have one yet.

 

Otherwise, run:

git ls-remote gerrit.private:toto

 

Can you see the refs/meta/config?

 

If not, you can try to clear your caches on the Gerrit server and if that does not help, go over all the access rights and ensure you actually have the rights to see it.

 

Best regards

Gustaf

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[Lundh, Gustaf]

Sorry..

 

I was a bit quick. I figured new projects would just inherit from the parent All-Project without getting a refs/meta/config.

 

But Gerrit actually sets the “Project.State“ in refs/meta/config:project.config regardless if you specify a parent.

 

Still. I would run git ls-remote and try to verify the access-rights.

[Johan Martinsson]

You're spot on. 

The admin user was no longer project owner.

Thanks

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[Shawn Pearce]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Johan Martinsson <martinss...@gmail.com> wrote:

You're spot on. 

The admin user was no longer project owner.

This is a fuzzy area in the way access controls work.

Administrators can always see any access panel in the web UI, but they can't see a branch over Git unless they have Read permission on it. This often blocks access to refs/meta/config. I usually setup a server so that All-Projects contains a refs/meta/config Read permission for the administrators group(s) to always make it available over Git.

[Johan Martinsson]

Another strangeness (or I missed something) is that you cannot do command-line ACL out of the box, since there is no push allowed on refs/meta/config:

gerrit create-group someproject-admin --member me

gerrit create-project someproject --owner someproject-admin

mkdir someproject

cd someproject

git init

git fetch gerrit:someproject refs/meta/config

git checkout FETCH_HEAD

git config -f project.config --add access.refs/*.Read "group someproject-admin"

git commit -am'updated config'

git push gerrit:someproject HEAD:refs/meta/config

remote: You are not allowed to perform this operation.

remote: Configuration changes can only be pushed by project owners

remote: who also have 'Push' rights on refs/meta/config

Of course I can create a permissions-only project where the owner has push to refs/meta/config. But I don't see why this is so.

Johan

[Nitish Goel]

Hello,

I have similar error on one of the project

we have multiple projects maintained on gerrit. For one of project when i try to change the access permission, it gives me error

I don't think I have access issue. I have owner and read permission from the parent project.