Redirection loop to the same repo #1758

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Hi. I wanted to create a repo named dsum; first mistakenly under my personal account (ncts), then deleted it, and created it again under the correct organization account (nightsail). However, the resulting page https://codeberg.org/nightsail/dsum seems to have went into a strange redirection loop from/to itself:

❯ xh https://codeberg.org/nightsail/dsum
HTTP/2.0 303 See Other
content-length: 42
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
date: 2025年1月13日 11:48:52 GMT
location: /nightsail/dsum
(...)
<a href="/nightsail/dsum">See Other</a>.

It's possible from my account to the org account (/ncts/dsum => /nightsail/dsum), but this obviously isn't the case.

It seems that each visit refreshes the repository to be "updated now", even though it's only a GET.

OK, today I tried to delete and recreate the repo, and when cloning it, git says

warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout

I observe the same behavior (303 loop) on my repo: https://codeberg.org/thiscaspar/nixos_inlet_user

But i just created the codeberg repo and then pushed my code from a local repo.

That seems weird. But indeed, creating a repository in the place of a URL acting as a redirect breaks the said redirect.

@n0toose wrote in #1758 (comment):

That seems weird. But indeed, creating a repository in the place of a URL acting as a redirect breaks the said redirect.

But were you able to check out and use the repo eventually?

Wait, I might be misunderstanding the problem.

Sorry, i realize my repo is private so its not visible to others.
But even after i login in a new browser, login to codeberg, it slips into the 303 loop. Just to rule out that it's some local state issue in my browser.

I am looking for a way to make my repo actually function, and it seemed to me that you found a way to "revive it".
But of course for a functioning repo i need both the web interface on codeberg, and a functioning git server.

Your reply made me think the git server is malfunctioning after the "fix".