From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Joel Mahoney <joelmahoney@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fatal: bad revision 'HEAD'
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 21:18:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090810011803.GA435@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06DCECD0-45F0-4695-86D4-7C54EFE4E640@gmail.com>
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:15:46PM -0600, Joel Mahoney wrote:
> I am having trouble installing Ruby on Rails plugins from github.
> when I run e.g. script/install plugin git://github.com/thoughtbot/
> paperclip.git I get:
>
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/my/project/vendor/
> plugins/paperclip/.git/
> > fatal: bad revision 'HEAD'
> > refusing to pull with rebase: your working tree is not up-to-date
I can "git clone" that repository just fine. What is it exactly that
installing a Rails plugin does with git? Can you try setting GIT_TRACE=1
in the environment and running your script to show us what git commands
it is executing?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-10 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-09 21:15 fatal: bad revision 'HEAD' Joel Mahoney
2009-08-10 1:18 ` Jeff King [this message]
[not found] ` <09EE2E57-626B-4686-A6DD-3B8DF1BC3FE2@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20090811015615.GA8383@coredump.intra.peff.net>
[not found] ` <C44788EB-02BA-4D69-8091-9E97827223A0@gmail.com>
2009-08-12 3:27 ` Jeff King
2009-08-12 7:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-12 7:58 ` Jeff King
2009-08-12 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-13 2:31 ` Jeff King
2009-08-13 4:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-13 4:38 ` Jeff King
2009-08-13 5:02 ` Joel Mahoney
2009-08-13 5:10 ` Jeff King
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