From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:59:33 GMT
Subject: GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY handling broken on master.kernel.org?
Message-ID: <1133359173.4117.68.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>

Daily kernel snapshots broke again. Trying to access, literally, "GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY".

hera /home/dwmw2 $ export GIT_DIR=/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
hera /home/dwmw2 $ git-rev-parse --revs-only 00d7a7358e3f9f2575501674e604fe4c6700b365
00d7a7358e3f9f2575501674e604fe4c6700b365
hera /home/dwmw2 $ export GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY=/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects
hera /home/dwmw2 $ git-rev-parse --revs-only 00d7a7358e3f9f2575501674e604fe4c6700b365
fatal: Not a git repository: '/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git'
hera /home/dwmw2 $ strace git-rev-parse --revs-only 00d7a7358e3f9f2575501674e604fe4c6700b365 2>&1 | tail
access("/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/refs", X_OK) = 0
lstat64("/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/HEAD", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=17, ...}) = 0
readlink("/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/HEAD", "refs/heads/master", 255) = 17
access("GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY", X_OK)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "fatal: ", 7fatal: )                  = 7
write(2, "Not a git repository: \'/pub/scm/"..., 72Not a git repository: '/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git') = 72
write(2, "\n", 1
)                       = 1
exit_group(128)                         = ?
Process 30646 detached

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dwmw2