From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Armin Ronacher Subject: git clone on out-of-space device causes incorrect errors Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:48:30 +0000 Message-ID: <52E8F89E.6090801@active-4.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 29 13:56:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W8Ugo-0005Og-T5 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:56:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751398AbaA2M4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:56:18 -0500 Received: from ayreal.srv.pocoo.org ([78.46.64.175]:59199 "EHLO ayreal.srv.pocoo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751086AbaA2M4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:56:18 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 466 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:56:18 EST Received: from minint-2aangor.splashdamage.local (unknown [194.74.244.130]) by ayreal.srv.pocoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 896C92A1C057 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:48:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, When cloning onto a device that is out of space to fulfill the whole clone operation, git will report that the remove repository does not exist: $ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/flask Cloning into 'flask'... remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://github.com/mozilla/flask/' not found This error is misleading. As an example here is what hg does for the same situation: $ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel destination directory: wheel requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes transaction abort! failed to truncate 00changelog.i rollback failed - please run hg recover abort: No space left on device: /Volumes/Disk Image/wheel/.hg/store/.fncache-bt6dzr Regards, Armin