GitLab Weirdness

If you're using GitLab.com for hosting your repositories, you may have encountered a strange problem wherein your newly-created repository's dashboard doesn't update.

That is, when you git push your changes to the repository, the interface still looks like a newly-created repository, and neither your files nor your commits are visible in the web UI. This is weird because the remote repository works in all other respects. You can push code up to it, clone it, etc. You just can't see it on the GitLab website.

I've seen this happen a couple of times, and so far I've found that the quick fix is to run Housekeeping on the repository from the Edit Project page.

Housekeeping can take a couple of minutes but most of the time it works and you can see your repository's files and commit history after running it. If it doesn't work, you have to delete the repository in GitLab and re-create it, pushing your code up again.