Gitlab cannot support an undocumented set of Git repository names.
Currently, this list appears to contain at least these names:
badges
blame
blob
builds
commits
create
create_dir
edit
files
find_file
new
preview
raw
refs
tree
update
wikis
There may be additional constraints for:
environments
gitlab-lfs
info
We have at least one collision today, tree.
One way to avoid these problems is to prefix all package names with
“pkg-”. This way, future collisions become extremely unlikely, at the
cost of a one-time large rename.
The alternative would be to main an exception mechanism for colliding
package names such as “tree”. This has been the current approach, but
as far as I can tell, it is not working.
Implementing this change depends on the completion of the package
removal process because it does not appear worthwhile to rename packages
which no longer exist in the distribution.
Thanks,
Florian