Unable to clone All-Projects repo after Gerrit install

[Tom Green]

Hi,

I have a newly setup instance of Gerrit.

Currently there are only two repos: All-Projects binutils-test

When attempting to clone All-Projects I receive the following error:

$ git clone ssh://user@hostname:29418/All-Projects 

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/ 

error: Trying to write ref HEAD with nonexistant object 2055f748c7285720057fe7213258e6c5b11776e3

fatal: Cannot update the ref 'HEAD'.

Cloning of the other repository (binutils-test) works OK, so at least the basic setup seems OK.

My user is a member of the Administators group, and so shouldn't have any access issues.


My end goal is cloning All-Projects so I can modify the project.config to add the Verified label, but it's unclear to me why All-Projects is refusing to clone.

Cheers,

Tom

[Matthias Sohn]

try this:

$ git init cfg ; cd cfg

$ git remote add origin ssh://user@hostname:29418/All-Projects

$ git pull origin refs/meta/config

$ vi project.config

$ git commit -a -m 'Updated permissions'

$ git push origin HEAD:refs/meta/config

this is described in

http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/sites/eclipsecon.org.2013/files/Deploying%20Gerrit%20Code%20Review.pdf

--

Matthias 

[Tom Green]

The above allowed me to correctly get a clone of the repo, make the change, and push back to gerrit.

I confirmed that the changes were in place by again pulling from All-Projects in a new repo and checking the change appeared in the git log.

However, under the Access panel on the Gerrit GUI, there is still no reference to a Verified label, only Code Review.

I stopped the gerrit server and started it again to ensure it re-read any config, but with no change.

I added the Verified label definition as per instructions here:

https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/config-labels.html

The tail of project.config now looks like this:

[label "Code-Review"]

        function = MaxWithBlock

        copyMinScore = true

        value = -2 Do not submit

        value = -1 I would prefer that you didn't submit this

        value =  0 No score

        value = +1 Looks good to me, but someone else must approve

        value = +2 Looks good to me, approved

[label "Verified"]

        function = MaxWithBlock

        value = -1 Fails

        value =  0 No score

        value = +1 Verified

Cheers,

Tom

[Tom Green]

Sorry, yes, this works for me now.
I'd missed the 'add permission' button in the Access panel in GUI.

Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

Cheers,

Tom