Re: More problems...

From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Apr 29, 2005, 16:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20050429171205.B30010@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20050429170127.A30010@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:01:27PM +0100, Russell King wrote:

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> Ok.  cogito-0.8.
> 
> rmk@dyn-67:[linux-2.6-rmk]:<1049> cg-update origin
> `../linux-2.6/.git/refs/heads/master' -> `.git/refs/heads/origin'
> `../linux-2.6/.git/objects/00/78aeb85737197a84af1eeb0353dbef74427901' -> `.git/objects/00/78aeb85737197a84af1eeb0353dbef74427901'
> cp: cannot create link `.git/objects/00/78aeb85737197a84af1eeb0353dbef74427901': File exists
> `../linux-2.6/.git/objects/01/ca31cc7bfdd18d6f72288915021730442f386d' -> `.git/objects/01/ca31cc7bfdd18d6f72288915021730442f386d'
> cp: cannot create link `.git/objects/01/ca31cc7bfdd18d6f72288915021730442f386d': File exists
> `../linux-2.6/.git/objects/04/17820d15efac837a84f9ade46f56339016a282' -> `.git/objects/04/17820d15efac837a84f9ade46f56339016a282'
> cp: cannot create link `.git/objects/04/17820d15efac837a84f9ade46f56339016a282': File exists
> `../linux-2.6/.git/objects/07/da010b67d4d715b5e97dfb824eb70433776a20' -> `.git/objects/07/da010b67d4d715b5e97dfb824eb70433776a20'
> cp: cannot create link `.git/objects/07/da010b67d4d715b5e97dfb824eb70433776a20': File exists
> `../linux-2.6/.git/objects/07/5d3961a119e8f27294cd77193f8fee7908a521' -> `.git/objects/07/5d3961a119e8f27294cd77193f8fee7908a521'
> ...
> cp: cannot create link `.git/objects/fc/1428905472a61e8e51057a4237acab5d8594d8': File exists
> `../linux-2.6/.git/objects/fc/373c483e62dc1bbc5c3915f2d3c795fb316ec5' -> `.git/objects/fc/373c483e62dc1bbc5c3915f2d3c795fb316ec5'
> cp: cannot create link `.git/objects/fc/373c483e62dc1bbc5c3915f2d3c795fb316ec5': File exists
> `../linux-2.6/.git/objects/ff/c3be3dff7e20e2ad5367fa8d6d0d2f0baa8a24' -> `.git/objects/ff/c3be3dff7e20e2ad5367fa8d6d0d2f0baa8a24'
> cp: cannot create link `.git/objects/ff/c3be3dff7e20e2ad5367fa8d6d0d2f0baa8a24': File exists
> `../linux-2.6/.git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783' -> `.git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783'
> cp: cannot create link `.git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783': File exists
> cg-pull: rsync error
> 
> rmk@dyn-67:[linux-2.6-rmk]:<1052> md5sum .git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783 ../linux-2.6/.git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783
> 194b70d0eed786807e14e97dd0a5ad8d  .git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783
> 194b70d0eed786807e14e97dd0a5ad8d  ../linux-2.6/.git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783
> rmk@dyn-67:[linux-2.6-rmk]:<1053> vdir .git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783 ../linux-2.6/.git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783
> -rw-rw-r--  1 rmk rmk 3070 Apr 28 10:43 .git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783
> -rw-r--r--  1 rmk rmk 3070 Apr 29 16:50 ../linux-2.6/.git/objects/ff/8b49966a9f6ed23f6489bb986de87a14d4b783
> 
> What seems to be happening is that I create changes in my tree, rsync
> them out to kernel.org.  Linus pulls them into his tree.  I pull them
> back into my reference tree, and then try and update my working tree.
> 
> By that time, the object files in the reference tree appear to have
> a newer timestamp than the corresponding ones in my local tree, and
> cp -lua fails.
> 
> Which means cogito fails to work for me...  Help.

I've worked around it by doing:

$ rm -rf .git/objects/* $ cg-update origin

Not particularly nice, but very necessary, and apparantly the only way to get this to work. Grumble. Why am I seemingly the only one running into all these blocking problems.

-- 
Russell King