Cannot import existing projects

[gitblit]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 3

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Changed repository directory to my own repository root. 
2. Started server.
3. When I try to access web panel returned Internal Error.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

List of git repositories should be shown.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Gitblit 0.5.0 / Ubuntu 10.04 Linux Desktop

Please provide any additional information below.

All repositories was created with git and google repo tool.

Reported by baris@barbardata.com on 2011-06-27 10:00:17

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[gitblit]

I don't really know much about the repo tool, but for some reason one, or more, of your
repositories does not have a "HEAD" ref?  I do not claim to be a Git master, but that
seems unusual to me.

Accounting for a missing HEAD will take some thought as I rely on using "HEAD" if an
SHA1 or ref is not supplied.  Perhaps that was a poor choice.  Not sure.

Reported by James.Moger on 2011-06-27 12:06:48

• Status changed: Accepted

[gitblit]

Could this be a permissions problem?  What user is your tomcat running as?

Reported by James.Moger on 2011-06-27 12:18:50

[gitblit]

Have you reviewed the permissions of your repositories and compared them to the user
that your Tomcat is running as?

Reported by James.Moger on 2011-07-07 20:56:55

[gitblit]

This issue was reported again in issue 310 and a solution was found.  Will be in next
release.

Reported by James.Moger on 2011-07-25 20:11:46

• Status changed: Duplicate
• Merged into: NPE: Failed to get commit HEAD #310