MySQL: Original was 5.1.73 ==> now we're on MariaDB-5.533
GitLab: Original 6.1 ==> now 6.6.2

-Matt

On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Sytse Sijbrandij <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not sure, can you give some background on your original MySQL
> version and GitLab version?
> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sytse Sijbrandij
> CEO GitLab B.V.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Matthew Fleming
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick reply. Well the db was setup in accordance with the
>> instructions. The db itself was set to utf8 character set and
>> utf8_unicode_ci collation. We didn't manually create the tables or anything
>> like that; I think the application is a rails app that does db migrations on
>> startup. So the question is whoever 'creates' the merge_request_diffs table,
>> didn't make this table with utf8. I'm just wondering how that happens?
>> 
>> -Matt
>> 
>> On Sep 19, 2014, at 8:51 AM, Sytse Sijbrandij <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I think your MySQL tables where set up with the incorrect character set.
>> 
>> Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Sytse Sijbrandij
>> CEO GitLab B.V.
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Matthew Fleming
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> So here's the reason that unicode/utf-8 chars are bombing gitlab merge
>> requests:
>> 
>> ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (Mysql2::Error: Incorrect string value:
>> '\xE2\x86\xB4 \n...' for column 'st_diffs' at row 1: UPDATE
>> `merge_request_diffs` SET `state` = 'collected', `st_diffs`
>> 
>> The issue is that the merge_request_diffs table is not set to accept utf8
>> characters.
>> 
>> -Matt
>> 
>> On Sep 3, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Matthew Fleming <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> -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. When I submitted the merge request across repositories it
>> always failed however (until the character was removed).
>> 
>> -Matt
>> 
>> 
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