Subject: Re: git-fetch does not work from .git subdirectory

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:09:18 -0600

Patrik Gornicz wrote:
> Just a hunch but your remote's location uses a relative path 
> '../linux-2.6.git', perhaps git is messing up what the path is relative 
> to.

That makes sense.  Git is looking at the URL and not realizing that it's
relative to the home directory.

[remote "upstream"]
	url = ../linux-2.6.git/
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/upstream/*

> Note sure what the fix will be though as it'll likely break existing 
> repositories that use relative paths either way. Can you try an 
> absolute path to see if that fixes thing?

If I change that to

[remote "upstream"]
	url = /home/b04825/git/linux-2.6.git/
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/upstream/*

then everything works.

IMHO, this is a bug in git.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale