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Bug 427097

Summary:	Paho Python repo needs history squashing
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Roger Light <roger>
Component:	Git	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	denis.roy, thanh.ha, wayne.beaton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Roger Light

2014-01-31 05:13:07 EST

The Paho Python Git repository has history from before the initial contribution that needs to be removed.

This is discussed in the thread starting here: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/paho-dev/msg01237.html

The repository is:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/paho/org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.python.git/

The final commit before the initial contribution that was scanned by the IP team was 2d8aa084a9b26b6f0eaf6bbc587a9eb3ea1c3d24.

I am happy to resolve the history in my local copy and then push the changes, but to do so will need the current repository reinitialising. I am equally happy to have the changes carried out on my behalf.

Comment 1 Thanh Ha

2014-01-31 13:55:20 EST

Roger,

I've given you "Force Push" and "Forge Committer" rights. This should be enough to allow you to force push a new master branch.

Please let us know when you've done the push so that I can revert these permissions.

Comment 2 Roger Light

2014-02-03 16:49:21 EST

I've tried to do a force push using the gerrit url, it failed with:

remote: error: The author does not have a Gerrit account.
remote: All authors must either be a commiter on the project, or have a current CLA on file.

This is on a commit from Jan-Piet Mens, who has a CLA on record, used a proper commit message and the push was fine when it was done - although this was prior to moving to gerrit.

Can you advise how I should proceed?

Comment 3 Thanh Ha

2014-02-03 16:55:42 EST

(In reply to Roger Light from comment #2)
> I've tried to do a force push using the gerrit url, it failed with:
> 
> remote: error: The author does not have a Gerrit account.
> remote: All authors must either be a commiter on the project, or have a
> current CLA on file.
> 
> This is on a commit from Jan-Piet Mens, who has a CLA on record, used a
> proper commit message and the push was fine when it was done - although this
> was prior to moving to gerrit.
> 
> Can you advise how I should proceed?

Right that's a problem. We can work around this by not using Gerrit Push URLs. I've re-enabled the old URLs for this repo so you can push to the old URLs again. This will mess up Gerrit permissions but we can fix it after you finish your push.

Use this URL: ssh://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/paho/org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.python.git

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2014-02-03 17:00:36 EST

If Jan hasn't logged into Gerrit at least once, then Gerrit doesn't know who that person is.  Logging in once may just solve the problem.

Comment 5 Thanh Ha

2014-02-03 17:02:45 EST

(In reply to Denis Roy from comment #4)
> If Jan hasn't logged into Gerrit at least once, then Gerrit doesn't know who
> that person is.  Logging in once may just solve the problem.

Right that's true too. I forgot this repo's pretty new. I was thinking that it might have had a long history of commits with authors who are no longer around but if the issue's only with 1 committer having him login will solve the issue.

Comment 6 Roger Light

2014-02-04 03:14:31 EST

Jan-Piet logged in and I was able to push all of the commits.

You can remove the extra permissions now, thanks.

Comment 7 Thanh Ha

2014-02-04 09:19:49 EST

(In reply to Roger Light from comment #6)
> Jan-Piet logged in and I was able to push all of the commits.
> 
> You can remove the extra permissions now, thanks.

Done.