Re: Cygwin Git repos refusing push

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 04/10/2022 08:55, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> There's a hook on the Cygwin Git infrastructure that is refusing to
> accept updated tags for the git package.  There's no explanation of why
> the push is being rejected, but this worked four weeks ago when I pushed
> v2.37.3-1, and is failing now.
[...]
>      
>      $ git push cygwin v2.38.0-1
>      Enumerating objects: 10, done.
>      Counting objects: 100% (10/10), done.
>      Delta compression using up to 4 threads
>      Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
>      Writing objects: 100% (8/8), 762 bytes | 381.00 KiB/s, done.
>      Total 8 (delta 6), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
>      remote: FATAL: W refs/tags/v2.38.0-1 git/cygwin-packages/git Adam_Dinwoodie DENIED by fallthru
>      remote: error: hook declined to update refs/tags/v2.38.0-1
>      To cygwin.com:git/cygwin-packages/git.git
>       ! [remote rejected] v2.38.0-1 -> v2.38.0-1 (hook declined)
>      error: failed to push some refs to 'cygwin.com:git/cygwin-packages/git.git'
> 
> Is this a bug in the server side hooks, or have I missed some expected
> change in behaviour here?  It's not a big deal -- I'm not using the

Thanks for reporting this.

A few weeks ago, I made a change to prevent pushes to branches which 
don't have a defined role in our scheme (i.e anything not 'master' or 
'playground'), and accidentally prevented tags from being pushed as well.

I've adjusted the gitolite configuration so this should work again.

In passing, I notice that this repo doesn't have a master branch, only 
tags, as that has never been pushed to, which may or may not be what you 
intended.