Source Code Gone Missing

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Hello,

I've been using Google Code's Project Hosting feature for a few projects over the last years but i've recently encountered a rather strange and annoying problem which is unabling me from accessing the source code after X days.

For this particular project, i've only used Eclipse's Google plugin on Linux to commit and checkout from the repository. However, after a few days (perhaps a week, not sure), whenever i tried to checkout the source code, it would retrieve an error. And when i manually accessed the repository manually through a browser, the source code was in fact gone!

The first time this happened i was lucky enough to have an extra copy of the source code, so i simply resetted the repository and recommited the source code. But this kept happening over the last few months, and you can imagine how annoying it has been.

Even more, i can access the various logs in the Activity section, but whenever i try to see the differences in any previous revision it returns an error! (404. That’s an error.)

While it is viable that i keep 2 copys of the source code, and keep resetting and recommiting the repository, i would rather have a solution and an explanation to this strange issue.

EDIT: link to the repository in question (http://code.google.com/p/feup-yal2jvm/[^])

Regards,

Tiago Casanova

Posted 9-Jul-11 7:09am

Member 8071268

Updated 9-Jul-11 12:20pm

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fjdiewornncalwe · Answer 1 · 2011-07-09T08:28:00

Solution 1

Perhaps you should be asking this to the guys over at google?

Posted 9-Jul-11 8:28am

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Member 8071268 9-Jul-11 15:00pm

Thanks for the tip but I already did that, obviously, and i actually submitted a new topic on this matter that is waiting for approval to be published.

I asked this here in order to find someone that might had a similar experience or someone knowledgeable enough to provide an explanation for my problem.

Still, thanks for your suggestion, but i'm not that foolish! :)

Regards,

Tiago Casanova

fantasyaa · Answer 2 · 2011-07-09T12:01:00

Solution 2

I think I had a similar experience a while back but you should post the link to your repository so others could check what's up.

My advice is that you start a new project, commit your source to that one and carry your work out from there.
At least, that's what the guys at google recommended i should do when i contacted them about this. Don't waste your time over it, and start fresh.

Keats

Posted 9-Jul-11 12:01pm

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Member 8071268 9-Jul-11 18:23pm

Could you clarify when you mention you contacted google about this? (what you told them, their response, etc)

I actually need an explanation on why the repository ended up in such shape (for academic reasons). And i most surely will follow your advice and create a new one for this source code, thanks!

Regards,

Tiago Casanova

fantasyaa 9-Jul-11 19:01pm

I check ur link and i t seems like the problem i had since u have all the revisions but no code (i also noticed a lots of reset on the revision counts, whats that about?)

WWhen this happened to me, i emailed support detailing my problem, like urs, bla, bla bla, and asked them what i could do to fix it and get the code back. They emailed me some time later stating that they had some data problems and ended up doing some kind of maintenance on a few of their servers at the time. I guess some random data chunks went berserk or something. Anyhow, i don't see how that could delete my data but they basically blamed the problem on that.

To explain your case, google did some server maintenance prior to the release of iOS 4 (and after too!) if i'm not mistaken, and the same thing could have happened to your data. U do have the logs, but u are missing the code which is like what happened to me.
Oh, and they never told me how i could get my code back, so that went to hell...luckily it was a proj in early stage.

Just start over a new project if u have a copy and forget about the other one, just lay it to rest, or submit it to deletion.

Keats

Member 8071268 9-Jul-11 19:18pm

I didn't emailed their support, i started a new topic on Google Groups' Project Hosting section (2 actually). But i'll consider that option to obtain a direct answer if i get no results there.

I'll eventually start a new one since i do have a copy. Thanks for your help Keats! ;)

Regards,

Tiago Casanova