From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fast-import fails in read-only tree
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 01:08:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160129060802.GA23106@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfuxhz72e.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.version-control.git@gnu.org>
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 05:17:36PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I recently discovered that "git fast-import" signals an error if used in
> a tree to which we do not have write-access, because it tries to create
> a "objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXX" file even before starting to process
> the commands.
>
> Usually this is not a problem (we'll create new commits and such, so
> write-access is indeed necessary), but in my case I was using
> fast-import only for its "reading" operations (in order to combine
> several inter-dependent "cat-file" operations into a single git
> session).
The primary goal of fast-import is to write that packfile. It kind of
sounds like you are using the wrong tool for the job.
Can you elaborate on what you are sending to fast-import (preferably
with a concrete example)? There may be a way to accomplish the same
thing with read-only tools like cat-file.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-29 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-28 22:17 fast-import fails in read-only tree Stefan Monnier
2016-01-29 6:08 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-01-29 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-30 5:13 ` Jeff King
2016-01-30 9:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-01-30 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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