How to remove changes imported from other gerrit server?

[Yingchun Li]

Hi,

     I git clone --mirror one repository, and the repository managed by gerrit sever

too, there are a lot of changes with the repo, so I want to remove all of these

changes. is there a command or some good method?

     Because some of my user enconter ''internal error" when pushing the

change to my own server, and I check the server side error-log, and it says:

[2023-09-18T14:49:17.468+08:00] [SSH git-receive-pack /linux/trusted-firmware-a (wenchentan)] WARN  com.google.gerrit.server.git.MultiProgressMonitor : MultiProgressMonitor worker did not call end() before returning
[2023-09-18T14:49:17.469+08:00] [SSH git-receive-pack /linux/trusted-firmware-a (wenchentan)] ERROR com.google.gerrit.server.git.receive.AsyncReceiveCommits : error while processing push
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.google.gerrit.server.notedb.InvalidServerIdException: invalid server id, expected ff400fd9-08c1-4584-8067-a5a1dc52885d: actual: 8f6f209b-db1a-4cbf-aa44-c8bc30e9bfda
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:191)
at com.google.gerrit.server.git.receive.AsyncReceiveCommits.preReceive(AsyncReceiveCommits.java:407)
at com.google.gerrit.server.git.receive.AsyncReceiveCommits.lambda$asHook$0(AsyncReceiveCommits.java:351)
at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.ReceivePack.service(ReceivePack.java:2268)
at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.ReceivePack.receive(ReceivePack.java:2182)
at com.google.gerrit.sshd.commands.Receive.runImpl(Receive.java:98)
at com.google.gerrit.sshd.AbstractGitCommand.service(AbstractGitCommand.java:109)
at com.google.gerrit.sshd.AbstractGitCommand$1.run(AbstractGitCommand.java:74)
at com.google.gerrit.sshd.BaseCommand$TaskThunk.run(BaseCommand.java:492)
at com.google.gerrit.server.logging.LoggingContextAwareRunnable.run(LoggingContextAwareRunnable.java:113)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:304)
at com.google.gerrit.server.git.WorkQueue$Task.run(WorkQueue.java:612)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
Caused by: com.google.gerrit.server.notedb.InvalidServerIdException: invalid server id, expected ff400fd9-08c1-4584-8067-a5a1dc52885d: actual: 8f6f209b-db1a-4cbf-aa44-c8bc30e9bfda
at com.google.gerrit.server.notedb.ChangeNotes.onLoad(ChangeNotes.java:685)
at com.google.gerrit.server.notedb.AbstractChangeNotes.load(AbstractChangeNotes.java:167)
at com.google.gerrit.server.notedb.AbstractChangeNotes.load(AbstractChangeNotes.java:147)
at com.google.gerrit.server.notedb.ChangeNotes$Factory.createForBatchUpdate(ChangeNotes.java:198)
at com.google.gerrit.server.update.BatchUpdate.newChangeContext(BatchUpdate.java:754)
at com.google.gerrit.server.update.BatchUpdate.executeChangeOps(BatchUpdate.java:709)
at com.google.gerrit.server.update.BatchUpdate.execute(BatchUpdate.java:152)
at com.google.gerrit.server.update.BatchUpdate.execute(BatchUpdate.java:453)
at com.google.gerrit.server.git.receive.ReceiveCommits.insertChangesAndPatchSets(ReceiveCommits.java:1126)
at com.google.gerrit.server.git.receive.ReceiveCommits.insertChangesAndPatchSets(ReceiveCommits.java:1032)
at com.google.gerrit.server.git.receive.ReceiveCommits.processCommandsUnsafe(ReceiveCommits.java:798)
at com.google.gerrit.server.git.receive.ReceiveCommits.processCommands(ReceiveCommits.java:684)
at com.google.gerrit.server.git.receive.AsyncReceiveCommits.lambda$preReceive$2(AsyncReceiveCommits.java:386)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515)
at com.google.gerrit.server.util.RequestScopePropagator.lambda$cleanup$1(RequestScopePropagator.java:186)
at com.google.gerrit.server.util.RequestScopePropagator.lambda$context$0(RequestScopePropagator.java:174)
at com.google.gerrit.server.util.ThreadLocalRequestScopePropagator.lambda$wrapImpl$0(ThreadLocalRequestScopePropagator.java:45)
at com.google.gerrit.server.util.RequestScopePropagator$1.call(RequestScopePropagator.java:85)
at com.google.gerrit.server.util.RequestScopePropagator$2.run(RequestScopePropagator.java:116)
... 8 more

ff400fd9-08c1 is my serverId, and 8f6f209b-db1a is my upstream servierId, I don't know

why the change messed with these two serverId(maybe there is a same change num in the upsteam server?)

But anyway, I want to remove all the changes belong to the upstream server, they makes no sense for me, pls give some advice, thanks!

Br,

Yingchun Li

[Nikhil Bhambure]

Hi,
We are also getting the same error. Did you manage to resolve this issue?

Regards,

Nikhil

[Yingchun Li]

On Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 5:36:53 PM UTC+8 Nikhil Bhambure wrote:

Hi,
We are also getting the same error. Did you manage to resolve this issue?

I just went into the repo,and opened packed-refs and remove all the lines that include "refs/changes/",

after remove all the __changes__ line, I edited the config file to this:

[remote "origin"]
url = https://xxx/upstream.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
mirror = true

and then I can using 'git fetch' safely.

But later I have another way, maybe that better, like this post

https://groups.google.com/g/repo-discuss/c/lbjehRNWLjI

maybe you can  set the "gerrit.importedServerId " as Sven Selberg told, but I never try.