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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Subject: Re: Cloning into an existing, non-empty directory?
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:37:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110423103758.GA1883@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=uNpruRhPcxKMUy4CH2V5q-z9U7Q@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>> Richard Hartmann wrote:

>>> 2) running `git pull` as suggested results in:
>>>
>>> fatal: /usr/lib/git-core/git-pull cannot be used without a working tree.
[...]
> Does this patch help?
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/150986

That's what I was thinking of but on second thought that can't be it.
Richard's script does chdir into $GIT_WORK_TREE.

So it's still puzzling, and a reduced testcase would be nice. :)

Thanks, both, and sorry for the nonsense.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-23 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-21 21:27 Cloning into an existing, non-empty directory? Richard Hartmann
2011-04-21 22:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-22 11:21   ` Richard Hartmann
2011-04-23 10:15     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-23 10:28       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-04-23 10:37         ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-04-23 22:11       ` Richard Hartmann
2011-04-25  8:00         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-25  8:40           ` Andreas Schwab
2011-04-25  8:59             ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-25 18:37               ` Jeff King
2011-04-25 14:08           ` Richard Hartmann

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