Problem to solve
Having a bit of odd behavior with wikis; I suspect a user on my installation may have borked the repository somehow, but I’m not sure how/if it can be fixed in a nice way.
When I clone a wiki repository, I get this warning:
remote: Enumerating objects: 6, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), done.
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
I can see some branches:
When I cat .git/HEAD I get:
ref: refs/heads/master
Similarly, from a working wiki repo that does not have this issue; interestingly, the default branch of this wiki’s associated repo is NOT main, it is master
ref: refs/heads/main
After cloning, I end up with an empty repository and no branch checked out. However, I am able to simply git checkout master and everything checks out fine, all of the files are present.
If I clone a fresh wiki from another project, I do not get the same behavior, so it would seem to me that someone pushed something in a way they shouldn’t have that caused this, unfortunately I have no way of knowing what this might be.
Is there any way for me to resolve this via the GitLab UI or from a local clone of the repository on my machine?
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- GitLab 16.11