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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Problem_with_bup:_cannot_lock_refs.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Problem_with_bup:_cannot_lock_refs.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index f8df1f082..000000000 --- a/doc/bugs/Problem_with_bup:_cannot_lock_refs.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ -Hi! - -Using bup for storing seems a good idea to save space, but I still have a problem when trying to copy files to my local git repo. -I have two partitions: - -- /Data (NTFS) - -- / (ext4) - -I turned the directory /Data/Audio into a git-annex repo, and cloned it into /home/me/AudioClone. -I added the remote bup to AudioClone by doing: - - git annex initremote mybup type=bup encryption=none buprepo= - -But when I try to copy some files that I have previously got by "git annex get" by doing: - - [~/AudioClone]$ git annex copy someartist/somealbum --to mybup - -it fails and tells me: - - copy Order To Die/01 Morituri Te Salutant.flac (to mybup...) - fatal: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/heads/WORM-s7351771-m1318841909--01 Morituri Te Salutant.flac'. - Traceback (most recent call last): - File "/usr/lib/bup/cmd/bup-split", line 170, in <module> - git.update_ref(refname, commit, oldref) - File "/usr/lib/bup/bup/git.py", line 835, in update_ref - _git_wait('git update-ref', p) - File "/usr/lib/bup/bup/git.py", line 930, in _git_wait - raise GitError('%s returned %d' % (cmd, rv)) - bup.git.GitError: git update-ref returned 128 - -for each file, **except for the album cover file**, which is a simple JPG that bup doesn't try to split. This one gets copied nicely but the big FLAC files don't. - -I tried to restart my session, in case bup adds my username to a group or something. - -(I'm using Ubuntu 11.10) - -> Apparently bup-split does not allow storing data using filenames with -> spaces in them. I can reproduce the same bug using the same filename; -> if I remove the spaces all is well. -> -> Since bup-split -n uses git branches, I guess git-annex needs to avoid -> giving it any names containing spaces, or anything else not allowed -> in a git branch name. The rules for legal git branch names are quite complex -> (see git-check-ref-format(1)) so it will take me some times to code -> this up. -> -> A workaround is to switch to the SHA256 backend -> (`git annex migrate --backend=SHA256`), which avoids spaces in its keys. -> --[[Joey]] - ->> Now fixed in git. [[done]] --[[Joey]] |