Re: git and gitweb inconsistencies

[Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:59:39PM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 08:14:12PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> > A few days later, I ran git-cvsimport again, with -i.  This imported
> > just the recent changes, but the view from gitweb didn't change.  :(
> 
> Are you sure you didn't just create a new import *inside* the old import ?
> Do you have, say, both an 'objects' and a '.git/objects' directory ?

OH!  You, sir, DO have a crystal ball.  :) 

I foolishly assumed that the second time I ran git-cvsimport, with -C
/pub/scm/project/ it would be able to detect that I was using the
stand-alone GIT-DIR.  But, it obviously didn't.  I guess the solution
is use specify GIT_DIR everytime I run git-cvstimport.

So, it seems that git-web.cgi detects and prefers the stand-alone
directory structure, because I specify it in the projects_list file,
while git-cat-file, and git-update-ref default to using .git.

> 
> > $ echo `git-rev-list tip --max-count=1` > refs/heads/mytest
> > $ git-cat-file -t `cat refs/heads/mytest`
> 
> That should be
> 
> git-update-ref refs/heads/mytest tip
> (the new head will appear in .git/refs/heads/mytest, 
> unless you've set GIT_DIR)
> git-cat-file -t mytest

Ah, and if I'd used that command, I would have realized something was
wrong when mytest *didn't* appear in refs/heads, but rather
.git/refs/heads.

Thanks for thinking creatively about how I could have messed it up!

-chris

> 
> 
> skimo