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From: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik•com>
To: Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail•com>
Cc: Git ML <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scripted clone generating an incomplete, unusable .git/config
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:55:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDBA15A.6090301@atlas-elektronik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik7-QzrMKDpV=W4dqpuguZsAr5yrMELmHu5NZMd@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/11/2010 12:21 AM, Dun Peal wrote:
> This is a weird issue I ran into while scripting some Git operations
> with git 1.7.2 on a Linux server.
> 
> When running the git-clone command manually from the command line, the
> resulting repo/.git/config had all three required sections: core,
> remote (origin), branch (master).
> 
> When running the exact same git-clone command manually from the Python
> scripted, the resulting repo/.git/config was missing the `core` and
> `remote` sections.
> 
> Here's a bash log fully demonstrating the issue:
> 
>   $ python -c "import os; os.popen('git clone
> git@git•domain.com:repos/repo.git')"
>   [...]
>   $ cat repo/.git/config
>   [branch "master"]
>           remote = origin
>           merge = refs/heads/master
>   $ rm -Rf repo
>   $ git clone git@git•domain.com:repos/repo.git
>   $ cat repo/.git/config
>   [core]
>           repositoryformatversion = 0
>           filemode = true
>           bare = false
>           logallrefupdates = true
>   [remote "origin"]
>           fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>           url = git@git•domain.com:repo/repo.git
>   [branch "master"]
>           remote = origin
>           merge = refs/heads/master
> 
> What's causing this?  Is it a bug?

Same for me with git version 1.7.3.2 on Debian Etch.
Seems to be a problem with the popen() returning too early or
the interpreter dying too early.

This works though:

$ python -c "import subprocess; subprocess.call(['git', 'clone', 'git://host/repoo.git'])"

Regards,
  Stefan
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-11  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-10 23:21 Scripted clone generating an incomplete, unusable .git/config Dun Peal
2010-11-11  7:55 ` Stefan Naewe [this message]
2010-11-11  8:00   ` Stefan Naewe
2010-11-11 10:37 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-11 12:16   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-11-11 17:32     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-11 17:55       ` Daniel Barkalow
2010-11-11 18:48         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-11 19:05           ` Jeff King
2010-11-12  2:16             ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-12  4:24               ` Jeff King
2010-11-12  4:35                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-12  4:32             ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-12  4:41               ` Jeff King
2010-11-12  5:18                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-12  5:12               ` [RFC/PATCH] daemon, tag, verify-tag: do not pass ignored signals to child (Re: Scripted clone generating an incomplete, unusable .git/config) Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-11 17:39   ` Scripted clone generating an incomplete, unusable .git/config Andreas Schwab

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