Broken Project

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Summary

Apparently suddenly there’s a problem with a project in our GitLab instance. We have more than 3000 projects and so far there have been no further reports.

The git commands (clone, pull, push, …) continue to work for the project. The repository itself seems to be fine.

It seems that if the path of the project is changed, then the problems are gone.

If I change the path back to the original value, the project is broken again.

Creating a new project in the “broken” path has been proven to result in a broken project.

The following does not work in a broken project

Just an extract. All other categories show similar problems.

Project overview

Details

  • Filename is visible
  • No value for last commit and Last update
  • Click on filename opens a new site and shows

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Activity

Releases

  • Same as Repository → Tag

Repository

Commits

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Branches

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  • Active Branches shows the master branch

Tags

  • It is possible to create a tag, but not to display it.

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Contributors

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Graph

  • endless spinner

Compare

  • Compare master with master

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  • Select another target

    Error fetching refs

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Hi,

are you able to share the broken and working project names? Maybe there are keywords and patterns causing this. Also, which GitLab version are you using? It may be a bug being fixed in latest.

One thing you could also do - run an integrity check.

Cheers,
Michael

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Problem is now fixed (12.10.6)

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Hi! I’ve been experiencing this issue in my project for quite some time. Project used to be obsolete, but now I need to make some fixes and it would be wonderful if project was not broken.

The (private) project is https://gitlab.com/profetes/adserver_consumer2.

Creating new project with the same repo does not help.
Doing git gc --prune=now locally and and force pushing does not help.
Housekeeping does not help.

What would help?