From: Patrik Gornicz <patrik-git@mail.pgornicz.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-fetch does not work from .git subdirectory
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:55:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AD77F3.3080702@mail.pgornicz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AC0316.7090002@freescale.com>
Just a hunch but your remote's location uses a relative path
'../linux-2.6.git', perhaps git is messing up what the path is relative
to.
I assume this repo is beside the linux.cq-test repo? ie. perhaps
they're located at /home/user/git/linux.cq-test and
/home/user/git/linux-2.6.git.
Then, for example, from linux.cq-test it looks for
/home/user/git/linux-2.6.git but from linux.cq-test/.git it looks for
/home/user/git/linux.cq-test/linux-2.6.git, which is wrong.
Note sure what the fix will be though as it'll likely break existing
repositories that use relative paths either way. Can you try an
absolute path to see if that fixes thing?
Patrik
On Tue Nov 20 17:24:22 2012, Timur Tabi wrote:
> I was under the impression that git commands which affect repository (as
> opposed to the local file system) work from any subdirectory inside the
> repository. For example:
>
> [b04825@efes linux.cq-test]$ git log -1
> commit f35d179fde24be5e1675b1df9f7a49b8d95561b2
> Author: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
> Date: Wed Oct 31 15:56:20 2012 +0200
> ...
> [b04825@efes linux.cq-test]$ cd .git
> [b04825@efes .git]$ git log -1
> commit f35d179fde24be5e1675b1df9f7a49b8d95561b2
> Author: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
> Date: Wed Oct 31 15:56:20 2012 +0200
> ...
>
> It appears, however, that git-fetch does not work this way:
>
> [b04825@efes linux.cq-test]$ git fetch upstream master
> From ../linux-2.6
> * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
> [b04825@efes linux.cq-test]$ cd .git
> [b04825@efes .git]$ git fetch upstream master
> fatal: '../linux-2.6.git' does not appear to be a git repository
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
> This makes it complicated because git hooks run from the .git directory on
> normal repositories, but they run from the top-level directory on bare
> repositories. Apparently, you need to be in the top-level directory for
> git-fetch to run in any kind of repository.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-22 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-20 22:24 git-fetch does not work from .git subdirectory Timur Tabi
2012-11-22 0:55 ` Patrik Gornicz [this message]
2012-11-26 16:09 ` Timur Tabi
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