Re: "Cannot fetch git.git" (worktrees at fault? or origin/HEAD) ?

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:27:28PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>
>> > If my analysis above is correct, then it's already fixed. You just had
>> > leftover corruption.
>>
>> Well fetching yesterday worked and the commit in question is from
>> 8/23, the merge  8a044c7f1d56cef657be342e40de0795d688e882
>> occurred 9/18, so I suspect there is something else at play.
>> (I do not remember having a gc between yesterday and today.
>> Though maybe one in the background?)
>
> Even a gc between yesterday and today should have used the new code,
> which would have been safe. So yeah, maybe it is something else
> entirely.

Oh, yeah.

>
>> I am curious how you can have a worktree owned by multiple
>> repositories [1] (?).
>
> Sorry, I forgot my footnote. I saw this with my "ci" script:
>
>   https://github.com/peff/git/blob/7905ff395adecdd2bb7ab045a24223dfb103e0e9/ci
>
> I check out the contents of my "meta" branch as "Meta", and it contains
> that script. It basically just waits for ref updates, then walks over
> all the commits and runs "make test" on them in the background (caching
> the results, thanks to the git-test[1] script). So I kick off "Meta/ci"
> in a terminal and forget about it, and magically it builds my commits in
> the background as I work.
>
> It operates in a worktree inside the Meta directory (Meta/tmp-ci), so as
> not to disturb what I'm doing. So far so good.
>
> But I actually have _two_ clones of Git on my system. One on which I do
> most of my work, and then the other which has the fork we use in
> production at GitHub. I symlink the Meta directory from the first into
> the latter, which means they both see the same worktree directory. And
> somehow running "Meta/ci" in the second corrupted things.
>
> I can get some funniness now, but I think it's mostly caused by the
> script being confused about the worktree existing but not having access
> to our branches. That's not a corruption, just a confusion. I _think_ I
> had a bogus HEAD in the worktree at one point, but I may be
> mis-remembering. I can't seem to trigger it now.

Thanks for these insights.

I played around with Meta a bit, but I did not feel it would enhance
my workflow enough as I am not involved with any maintainance
of git using git.

The git-test from Michael sounds intriguing. Initially I put off using
it as I had my main working dir (or rather test dir) on a spinning
disk, still. Now I test in memory only, which is a lot faster, so I could
try if git-test can keep up with my local commit pace.

Thanks,
Stefan