Gitpod is not letting me push my changes to github

[tommygonzaleza]

Bug description

When I try to push my changes to github it fails.

Steps to reproduce

git add .
git commit -m "Any message"
git push

Expected behavior

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Example repository

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Anything else?

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[jrdzha]

Just to chime in here -- we are experiencing the same issue.

Running git fsck prints 100's of "missing blob".

However, when we remove the .gitpod.yml, so we use the default Gitpod image, then this issue goes away. This is only an issue when using a custom image.

[jrdzha]

For what it's worth, using a custom image, and then removing the workspace and cloning it manually solves this issue:

rm -rf /workspace/repo
cd /workspace
git clone repo
git fsck  # No errors

[jrdzha]

Changing our docker image to use FROM gitpod/workspace-base:latest fixed this issue for us. This may not be a good solution for many, but worked for us.

[ArthurSens]

Hey!

I'm trying to reproduce it somehow and I still couldn't do it. Do you have a repository that we could use as an example to reproduce this problem?

[tommygonzaleza]

https://github.com/LeonErasmusCh/jest-unit-test

[ArthurSens]

https://github.com/LeonErasmusCh/jest-unit-test

Hmmm, I noticed that this repository is completely empty. So it doesn't have a .gitpod.yml file nor a base image to create the workspace.

I tried creating an empty repository: https://github.com/ArthurSens/empty-repository and then opened a workspace from it and pushed some changes.

It worked just fine:

As you can see, the repository is not empty anymore.

@csweichel, any ideas on what could be causing this?

[akosyakov]

@jrdzha Which version of git do you use? What git --version prints?

[jrdzha]

@akosyakov I'm using the python:3.6 image, and git --version is printing out git version 2.20.1.

[akosyakov]

@jrdzha Could you try to upgrade to latest git and see whether issue persists? We switched to partial clone to speed up workspace startup, maybe it broken older git versions.

[tommygonzaleza]

I found out that the error is happening when you change the remote repository, can you try to replicate it?

[alesanchezr]

Yeah I can confirm that it happens in all my workspaces when I change the remote.

I also tried installing GIT thru apt-get and it keeps happening.

[akosyakov]

I tried and could not reproduce with https://github.com/gitpod-io/vscode. I did:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/akosyakov/vscode.git
git push -f

Could someone provide an example repo and commands to reproduce?

[tommygonzaleza]

I'm sending you an example