Re: cg-admin-setuprepo fails to make a cg-clone'able repo

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 13, 2005, 00:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20051113002916.GK30496@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <8664qxn71k.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

Dear diary, on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 05:51:35PM CET, I got a letter where "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> said that...

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> >>>>> "Petr" == Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> Petr> But this is actually an entirely unrelated bug, it seems - pretty
> Petr> strange.  I revived another few months old thread because of this, since
> Petr> it seems the 'b' was actually a typo and we don't want to pass 'cp' this
> Petr> argument at all, but something different. Does cloning locally otherwise
> Petr> work?
> 
> When I tried "local cloning", I first tried to make an empty archive
> with cgi-init, but it dumped me into an editor.  I couldn't find a
> switch to turn that off.  Perhaps the manpage should say "you'll
> be dumped in to an editor",

Well, that's pretty obvious after the first try. ;-)

> and perhaps provide a way to pass that message with "-m".

Good idea. Added.

> So, on a whim, I realize that it's performing an initial commit,

It says that right in the editor, after all. :-)

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> so I try cg-init -I.
> 
> And here's the result:
> 
>     localhost:~/Projects/Git % cg-init -I my_master
>     defaulting to local storage area
>     localhost:~/Projects/Git % cg-clone my_master my_slave
>     defaulting to local storage area
>     find: /Users/merlyn/Projects/Git/my_master: No such file or directory
>     Hard links don't work - using copy
>     Fetching head...
>     cp: illegal option -- b
>     usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src target
>            cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory
>     cg-fetch: unable to get the HEAD branch
>     cg-clone: fetch failed
> 
> So, I guess your answer is no.  What is "-b" for cp.  That's not
> on my manpage.

It's something totally weird "backup" thing. A bug in Cogito, what we _want_ is to have cp dereferencing its symlink. I replaced it with -L now. Could you try the latest version from git or -rc2 (coming out in few minutes), please?

> And, after reading the manpage closer, I see my first "my_master"
> was created wrong.  But no error message. :(

Good catch. Fixed.

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