From: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail•fm>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:44:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g0k6k7$t4k$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805161439100.30431@racer>
Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 15:40:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 16 May 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>
>> Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>> Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 14:32:
>>>> Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>>>> Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 13:25:
>>>>>> I create the initial repository with
>>>>>>
>>>>>> git-clone /<full-path>/<name>.git/ <folder>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That works fine, but then I can't fetch. git-fetch gives the error
>>>>>> "fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive"
>>>>>> "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> P.
>>>>> Are you trying to clone a bare repository?
>>>>> Or is your repo maybe at /<full-path>/<name> with a .git subdir?
>>>> Yes, a bare repository.
>>> Then, maybe the full list of command lines (including cd and git-fetch)
>>> would be helpful in order to track this down.
>> Ok, sorry, thought it was probable something really obvious. Here's the
>> sequence (using git version 1.5.4).
>>
>> $ git-clone /big/git/paul.git/ epage
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/paul/epage/.git/
>> 719749 bolcks
>
> Something tells me that this is not a copy/paste ;-)
Let's just hope that's not units of boelkstoff ;)
>> $ cd epage
>> $ git-fetch
>> fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
> Is there a "[remote "origin"]" section in .git/config? What Git version
> is this, anyway?
1.5.4
Could git trip over that trailing slash? git 1.5.5.1 certainly doesn't.
BTW: The above shows something that confused me initially about cloning:
git reports the creation of an empty repo, nothing else. But it does
much more, of course, just without reporting.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-16 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-16 11:25 What am I doing wrong? Paul Gardiner
2008-05-16 11:43 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-05-16 12:32 ` Paul Gardiner
2008-05-16 12:43 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-05-16 13:28 ` Paul Gardiner
2008-05-16 13:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-16 14:44 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2008-05-16 21:16 ` Paul Gardiner
2008-05-16 14:56 ` Paul Gardiner
2008-05-16 17:17 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-05-16 21:11 ` Paul Gardiner
2008-05-16 12:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-16 12:34 ` Paul Gardiner
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