Redmine › SCM Creator (+Github)

Oh boy, this is a long one...

Sob story:
When I delete a project, I also want to delete its repos from the filesystem, which I believe is the default behavior. But my Git repo wasn’t being deleted, so I decided to implement that in a post-delete script. Except that the script apparently isn’t being run either. In both cases, Redmine shows no errors, and neither do Apache’s and Redmine’s logs. I checked that scm.yml is being read, and that post_delete is pointing to an existing, executable script. The script works fine when ran from the command line.

So I added a warning log in scm_creator.rb's execute method just before the system call, and, with git_ext set to false, created and deleted two projects, named removetest and testegit. Redmine’s log shows:

for removetest: repo at /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/git/removetest

Started DELETE "/redmine/projects/removetest" for 10.18.130.33 at Fri Jul 06 16:01:46 -0300 2012
Processing by ProjectsController#destroy as HTML
  Parameters: {"commit"=>"Delete", "confirm"=>"1", "id"=>"removetest", "utf8"=>"â", "authenticity_token"=>"o7lzjTLzw2QoOzbj6bdSEuGdXFAeDvjzycAocWTXfR0="}
Running /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/scripts/pre-delete.sh with /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/git/removetest, git, removetest
Running /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/scripts/post-delete.sh with /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/git/removetest, git, removetest
Redirected to http://forge:8080/redmine/admin/projects
Completed 302 Found in 205ms (ActiveRecord: 134.8ms)

for testegit: repo at /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/git/testegit

Started DELETE "/redmine/projects/testegit" for 10.18.130.33 at Fri Jul 06 15:50:44 -0300 2012
Processing by ProjectsController#destroy as HTML
  Parameters: {"commit"=>"Delete", "confirm"=>"1", "id"=>"testegit", "utf8"=>"â", "authenticity_token"=>"o7lzjTLzw2QoOzbj6bdSEuGdXFAeDvjzycAocWTXfR0="}
Running /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/scripts/pre-delete.sh with /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/git/test, git, testegit
Running /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/scripts/post-delete.sh with /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/git/test, git, testegit
Redirected to http://forge:8080/redmine/admin/projects
Completed 302 Found in 241ms (ActiveRecord: 153.2ms)

With git_ext set to true, deleting a project named testegit (repo at /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/git/testegit.git) yields:

Started DELETE "/redmine/projects/testegit" for 10.18.130.33 at Fri Jul 06 15:45:38 -0300 2012
Processing by ProjectsController#destroy as HTML
  Parameters: {"confirm"=>"1", "utf8"=>"â", "commit"=>"Delete", "authenticity_token"=>"o7lzjTLzw2QoOzbj6bdSEuGdXFAeDvjzycAocWTXfR0=", "id"=>"testegit"}
Running /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/scripts/pre-delete.sh with /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/git/testegit, git, testegit
Running /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/scripts/post-delete.sh with /home/redmine/redmine-2.0.3-1/repositories/git/testegit, git, testegit
Redirected to http://forge:8080/redmine/admin/projects
Completed 302 Found in 229ms (ActiveRecord: 138.8ms)

Note that the SCM_REPO_PATH the script receives is missing the last 4 characters, and that the repos are created correctly, so the The *-create scripts work just fine, this happens only with the *-delete scripts.

Ideally a delete script wouldn’t be necessary at all, and I haven’t found out why it apparently isn’t being run, but this does look like an attempt to remove an ending ".git” gone awry.