Subject: Re: Scripted clone generating an incomplete, unusable .git/config

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:32:53 -0600

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:16:27PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> Most likely the clone is terminating when Python exits, perhaps due to
>> SIGPIPE.  It doesn't look like a bug to me; I suspect you meant to use
>> os.system(), which is synchronous, instead.
[...]
> If "git clone" is terminated before it completes, shouldn't it clean
> the uncompleted repo?

Ah, so it should.

 trace: built-in: git clone jrn@localhost:/home/jrn/src/xz
 trace: run_command: ssh jrn@localhost git-upload-pack '/home/jrn/src/xz'
 trace: remove junk called
 jrn@localhosts password: 
 trace: run_command: index-pack --stdin -v --fix-thin --keep=fetch-pack 19314 on burratino
 trace: exec: git index-pack --stdin -v --fix-thin --keep=fetch-pack 19314 on burratino
 trace: built-in: git index-pack --stdin -v --fix-thin --keep=fetch-pack 19314 on burratino
 remote: Counting objects: 7299, done.
 remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1826/1826), done.
 remote: Total 7299 (delta 5421), reused 7274 (delta 5401)
 Receiving objects: 100% (7299/7299), 2.36 MiB | 4.43 MiB/s, done.
 Resolving deltas: 100% (5421/5421), done.
 trace: exited with status 0
 trace: exited with status 0
 trace: remove junk called
 trace: remove_junk: pid != 0

Are there any downside to the following?

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
---
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index 19ed640..af6b40a 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -667,6 +667,5 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	strbuf_release(&branch_top);
 	strbuf_release(&key);
 	strbuf_release(&value);
-	junk_pid = 0;
 	return err;
 }