GitHub Bugs!

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Bugs

• if you happen to not be logged in when you find a repo on github that you want to watch, then you log in, then you click the back button and click watch, the repo does not actually get added to your watch list. I had to log in then back up then refresh the page before it would work.
• signup with account using a SSH pub key that is in use on another account does not give an error – just bounces on the signup screen. I was wanting to use the same ssh pub key for another (commercial) account.
• adding a user to a project doesn’t check to see if the user is already on that project. Also it’d be nice if there was a loading img or the button was disabled until it finished
• if there is no master branch github does not show anything even if there are other branches * I second that: I suggest using either: A (configurable) “master” branch, the branch called master or the first alphabetical one; in that order.
• broken syntax highlighting ( here and here )
• .rdf files need to be mapped as XML, not file-downloasd
• ‘percent_expand: NULL replacement’ Bug
• github site doesn’t scale to smaller screen size (horizontal scroll bar needed): screenshot here
• broken file names in diff
• Cannot right click on “Inbox” icon and open inbox in another tab
• On page https://github.com/tommorris/rena/tree/new/lib/bnode.rb, the link to rena (in rena / lib / bnode) should point to /tommorris/rena/tree/new instead of /tommorris/rena/tree
• Bug viewing repo commit history feed (this has since started working, but probably only because the item that was causing it has since scrolled off the feed)
• Branch/tags menu links don’t render properly & are unclickable in IE7 (source browser and commits pages)
• Can’t delete an added email from the (delete) link
• All https pages with gravitar present are coming up unsecure due to gravitar being referenced through a http call.
• Really big commits produce really big pages that Firefox chokes on. Perhaps they need to be paginated somehow.
• If you fork a repo from another user, and that user deletes their repo, your forked repo goes into limbo, with always “hardcore forking action”.
• Suggestion: When browsing repositories, it would be nice to see the forking hierarchy.
• Adding a Deploy Key doesn’t do anything.
  • Can’t use the same deploy user for two different repositories. IE: two projects on the same server.
• the in-place-editor button is confusing and doesn’t save when editing text
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  • On the account page, when you edit a field in the account section and tab off, the field goes away, and the value you entered doesn’t save. I clicked tab so that I could highlight the “edit” link next to the box, and expected the text box to stay, but instead it disappeared.
• The pull request doesn’t work outside of the facebox here
• A commit with no changes except to file modes is broken here
• It is possible to add a recipient to a pull request that doesn’t have access to your private project.
• The count of people watching a repository isn’t correct. (note: I do have applied commits on this project) (posted by: robbyrussell)

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• The JSON data of the post-receive-hook is sent as url-encoded form data. This makes it hard (or impossible) to process it from within applications that have some kind of protection against CSRF (like Trac). I would suggest to add an option to send that data with Content-Type: application/json.
• File contents not showing
• Tarballs don’t pull in submodules, just get an empty folder.
  • It appears git-archive doesn’t handle submodules at all, is that what github uses to create the packages? If so, who do we report this bug to?

Usability and account maintenance.

• Cannot change the account’s primary email address.
• Cannot change the description of my private repos… after hitting enter, I get, “Not a valid homepage” in the description text box. * On a related note, consider adding an ‘onBlur’ form submit event to editable text fields

Fixed bugs

• Not sure if commits are showing the full message, for example (full commit according to git log)
• Copy-paste code from Firefox beta 3 to TM and you’ll have this
• yet another layout suggestion: on the commit page, i naturally try to click on the commit message to show the diff (commit page)
• some commits are not getting linked https://github.com/nex3/haml/commits/master
• links on repo’s network should point to repos source browser, not network
• GitHub claims newly created repository page does not exist
• duplicate commits are showing up
• ‘ssh public keys’ on signup is confusing, please make the box smaller so we know to only add one
• Just created a project in Safari 3.0.4. Clicked on the link “continue” when you are done. Remained on the same page with the same info. “continue” appears to do nothing.
• Branch browser shows “Page does not exist” error for 0.5.0-refactor for the Halcyon repo (may be due to forcefully replacing the branch’s head with a git push -f)
• Two separate GitHub accounts cannot have the same SSH key, which on the surface makes sense, but what if I have different accounts for different companies I work for, but use the same computer. (Generate another key.)
• can’t add a new user to a private repo. AJAX call returns a 500 (example)
• FF3 CSS bug here and here
• .rake file should be highlighted as ruby
• Tags are not turning up. example (click on all tags, output of git tag on my local clone )
• Occasionally I’ll start to see this error when I try to do ‘git push’ : pastie
• I have a private repo at https://github… When inputting the name of an additional user, I get a permanent spinner. Firebug reports a security error: content at https://github… can’t load data from https://github…. Note that adding a user works fine: I’m just missing out on something (autocompletion?) as I’m typing.
• Typing the letter ‘p’ in the edit description box for a project moves the view to a previous version (the hotkey is active even in a textfield). (this happens in all fields. C&Ping into the field works fine)
• Should be able to see private repositories’ progress on the dashboard if you are a member/own it (Such as here) use the “from me” , I meant such as:
• Created a Gravatar after signing up to Github. Picture doesn’t get updated? (just took a long time)
• Can’t delete a created repository if it doesn’t have a commit
• ‘Clone URL’ hrefs should be the actual url so “Copy Link Location” works (e.g. on https://github.com/drnic/javascript-unittest-tmbundle/tree/master)
• Edit links in Repository page are broken in Safari 2. safari 3 is a free upgrade
• Copy Permissions: “Clicking on a repository below will add all its members to this repository.” This message is shown, but if the user has only one repository there are no repos listed underneath the message.
• Viewing the commits for a dotted-branch seems to be broken (The tree view is fixed) broken page linked from
• It is possible to add a recipient to the pull request with no name
• The URI in the README includes trailing double quotes here
• Atom feed, users aren’t removed ‘from’ repos by owners, but are kidnapped and chained to the radiator: “Owner added Eve to repo 2 days ago” / “Owner removed Eve to [sic] repo 1 day ago”.