* Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository
@ 2011-08-20 17:47 Richard Tibbitt
2011-08-20 18:25 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
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From: Richard Tibbitt @ 2011-08-20 17:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Hi
I've been struggling to find an answer to this for days.
Can anyone confirm whether I've got the syntax right for 'Git clone'
when attempting to clone FROM a repository that was initialized using
--separate-git-dir ?
If so, does this work on Linux systems ?
With Git on windows (git version 1.7.6.msysgit.0 installed from
GitExtensions224SetupComplete.msi) I get an error as below, that looks
as though 'Git clone' is expecting the repo to have a 'normal'
integral .git dir
F:\>mkdir repo2
F:\>mkdir repo2git
F:\>cd repo2
F:\repo2>call git init --separate-git-dir="..\repo2git\.git"
Initialized empty Git repository in F:/repo2git/.git/
F:\repo2>echo abc >file1.txt
F:\repo2>call git add . -A
F:\repo2>call git commit -m "first"
[master (root-commit) c7e4766] first
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 file1.txt
F:\repo2>cd ..
F:\>call git clone repo2 clone2
Cloning into clone2...
fatal: failed to open 'F:/repo2/objects': No such file or directory
Many thanks in advance for any insight into this.
Richard
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* Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository
2011-08-20 17:47 Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository Richard Tibbitt
@ 2011-08-20 18:25 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-08-20 18:56 ` Richard Tibbitt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy @ 2011-08-20 18:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Tibbitt; +Cc: git
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Richard Tibbitt <gitlist@lazyprune.com> wrote:
> F:\>call git clone repo2 clone2
> Cloning into clone2...
> fatal: failed to open 'F:/repo2/objects': No such file or directory
This should be "git clone repo2/.git clone2", but with that command I got
Cloning into clone2..
error: '/tmp/repo2/.git' does not look like a v2 bundle file
fatal: Could not read bundle '/tmp/repo2/.git'.
You just do "git clone repo2git/.git clone2" for now.
--
Duy
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* Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository
2011-08-20 18:25 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
@ 2011-08-20 18:56 ` Richard Tibbitt
2011-08-21 3:27 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Richard Tibbitt @ 2011-08-20 18:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy; +Cc: git
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:25:36 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>This should be "git clone repo2/.git clone2", but with that command I got
>
>Cloning into clone2..
>error: '/tmp/repo2/.git' does not look like a v2 bundle file
>fatal: Could not read bundle '/tmp/repo2/.git'.
>
>You just do "git clone repo2git/.git clone2" for now.
Hi - thanks for trying that
Unfortunately I'm getting :-
call git clone repo2git\.git clone2
fatal: repository 'repo2git\.git' does not exist
& similarly
call git clone repo2\.git clone2
fatal: repository 'repo2\.git' does not exist
I guess this must be a peculiarity of msysgit on windows.
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* Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository
2011-08-20 18:56 ` Richard Tibbitt
@ 2011-08-21 3:27 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-08-21 11:13 ` Richard Tibbitt
2011-08-21 18:51 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy @ 2011-08-21 3:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Tibbitt; +Cc: git
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Richard Tibbitt <gitlist@lazyprune.com> wrote:
> call git clone repo2git\.git clone2
> fatal: repository 'repo2git\.git' does not exist
>
> I guess this must be a peculiarity of msysgit on windows.
Yes. Try "call git clone repo2git/.git clone2" (forward slash). The
forward slash is hard coded some places in git-clone. I just want to
make sure you dont hit another problem.
--
Duy
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* Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository
2011-08-21 3:27 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
@ 2011-08-21 11:13 ` Richard Tibbitt
2011-08-21 18:51 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Richard Tibbitt @ 2011-08-21 11:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy; +Cc: git
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:27:44 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>Yes. Try "call git clone repo2git/.git clone2" (forward slash). The
>forward slash is hard coded some places in git-clone. I just want to
>make sure you dont hit another problem.
Thanks for that - same result sadly.
I'll see what the guys on the msysgit list say about it.
Richard
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* Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository
2011-08-21 3:27 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-08-21 11:13 ` Richard Tibbitt
@ 2011-08-21 18:51 ` Junio C Hamano
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2011-08-21 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy; +Cc: Richard Tibbitt, git
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Richard Tibbitt <gitlist@lazyprune.com> wrote:
>> call git clone repo2git\.git clone2
>> fatal: repository 'repo2git\.git' does not exist
>>
>> I guess this must be a peculiarity of msysgit on windows.
>
> Yes. Try "call git clone repo2git/.git clone2" (forward slash). The
> forward slash is hard coded some places in git-clone. I just want to
> make sure you dont hit another problem.
As "fetch from bundle" (2e0afaf (Add git-bundle: move objects and
references by archive, 2007-02-22)) predates the "gitdir:" support
(b44ebb1 (Add platform-independent .git "symlink", 2008-02-20)) by a wide
margin, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the logic went "If the name can
be stat()ed and is a regular file, it must be a bundle. Otherwise it is a
local clone if it is a directory. All else ask the transport and see what
it says".
Why can't it be "git clone repo2git clone2" in the first place?
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