From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Zack Brown Subject: Re: cg-clone produces "___" file and no working tree Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:34:20 -0700 Message-ID: <20060420213420.GD3653@tumblerings.org> References: <20060419053640.GA16334@tumblerings.org> <20060419094916.GD27689@pasky.or.cz> <20060419142131.GD4104@tumblerings.org> <20060419144827.GX27631@pasky.or.cz> <20060420164908.GA540@tumblerings.org> <7vejzsywrq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060420200849.GA3653@tumblerings.org> <7vslo8xaql.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vodywxago.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:34:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vodywxago.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWgnH-00066S-BD for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:34:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751330AbWDTVe2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:34:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751334AbWDTVe2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:34:28 -0400 Received: from dsl092-000-086.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.0.86]:8337 "EHLO tumblerings.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751330AbWDTVe1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:34:27 -0400 Received: from zbrown by tumblerings.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FWgn6-00014Z-V8; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:34:20 -0700 To: Junio C Hamano Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Hi, > honestly I would not recommend "runnning > without installing" unless you know what you are doing ;-). OK, you're right, the problem was that I was not doing a proper install. I followed the directions and it worked. Thanks! Be well, Zack On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:23:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > > > Zack Brown writes: > > > >> Not true. I went into the git source directory, and ran "make". Nothing more. > > > > Ah, I misunderstood. You are trying to run it _without_ > > installing it. > > > > Well, then probably you do not have templates installed > > anywhere, especially not where git-init-db expects them to be > > found. > > (sorry for the short message sent unfinished by mistake). > > Running things without installing is somewhat tricky, but test > framework needs to do that, so there are some things you would > need to do. > > - "git init-db" takes --template argument; in the source area > before installing, they are built in templates/blt/. > > - "git" and programs that need to invoke other git programs > (e.g. git-send-pack) expects things to be found in gitexecdir > you set when you build. If you are not installing, you need > to override that with GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable. > > There might be other things, but you should be able to find them > from what t/Makefile and t/test-lib.sh do. > > Having said that, honestly I would not recommend "runnning > without installing" unless you know what you are doing ;-). > --