Right.. that does seem like it would cover it. I'm gonna check on the install that was done here (the guy who maintains the system is out until tomorrow). I'm gonna check the db settings and the table settings. I'll also get you a stacktrace.
-Matt On Sep 3, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Sytse Sijbrandij <[email protected]> wrote: > Mmm, sounds like a MySQL problem, should be covered with: > > mysql> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `gitlabhq_production` DEFAULT CHARACTER > SET `utf8` COLLATE `utf8_unicode_ci`; > > from > https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/install/database_mysql.md > > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Matthew Fleming <[email protected]> > wrote: > I can try to write the test case but in the past the problem was just about > creating the mysql database "properly". I can maybe get the admins to update > the mysql db to support utf8 but here's how you would do that in a create > script (I'm not sure how gitlab creates the db).. > > > CREATE DATABASE db_name > > CHARACTER SET utf8 > > DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 > > COLLATE utf8_general_ci > > DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci > > ; > > -Matt > > On Sep 3, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Sytse Sijbrandij <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> I think you are right, this is probably a GitLab or MySQL problem. I don't >> have an idea to solve it, it would be great if someone could write a failing >> test case for it. >> >> Sytse >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Matthew Fleming <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Also the git commit locally had no issues, nor did the push to the server. >> What failed was the generation of the pull request due to an insert problem >> with mysql handling utf-8 characters. >> >> -Matt >> >> On Sep 3, 2014, at 4:19 AM, sytse <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Git can't handle UTF-8 characters in the branch as far as I know. >>> >>> >>> On Friday, August 29, 2014 3:57:59 PM UTC+2, Matthew Fleming wrote: >>> Hey there, >>> >>> We are getting a 500 error when creating merge/pull requests from a branch >>> that contains UTF-8 characters in the change log. Mysql freaks out about >>> the unicode characters and doesn't allow the merge request to be written to >>> the db. When I removed the utf8 chars things worked properly. >>> Interestingly, the merge request to my own master branch (I was on a >>> feature branch) was successful, so I'm thinking there is a slightly >>> different path taken there. 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