Re: cg-clone produces "___" file and no working tree

From: Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org>
Date: Apr 19, 2006, 14:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20060419141656.GC4104@tumblerings.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5feawel.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:53:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:
> 
> > What is going on? I'm completely unable to clone a repository.
> 
> I have no idea how cg-* is broken, so I'll let Pasky answer
> that, but I suspect your git installation is broken.
> 
> > If I try
> > "git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/git.git",
> > I get this error: "git: 'clone' is not a git-command", and it prints a usage
> > page, but "clone" is listed on that usage page.
> 
> That sounds intersting.  Although rsync is deprecated for a long
> time and git:// is the preferred transport, I do not get "is not
> a git-command" error.  Are you installing things correctly?

I think so. I was able to reproduce this behavior using the tarballs that are used to start out a new user with git and cogito; as well as with the latest version in the repository.

But I also thought the rsync deprecation was not really true. Wasn't that discussed here recently? I thought the conclusion was that folks *wanted* to deprecate it, but at the moment it was still the best way to accomplish certain things.

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> 
> For example, as the first paragraph of INSTALL says, if you
> override prefix= from the make command line, you need to do so
> consistently when you build and when you install.
> 
> What do these command say?
> 
> 	$ git --exec-path
> 	$ ls -l "`git --exec-path`/git-clone"

22:07:05 [zbrown] ~$ git --exec-path /home/zbrown/bin 07:10:34 [zbrown] ~$ ls -l "`git --exec-path`/git-clone" ls: /home/zbrown/bin/git-clone: No such file or directory

Does that mean it's looking in /home/zbrown/bin for the git binaries? That's weird. I have /home/zbrown/git/git and /home/zbrown/git/cogito in my $PATH specifically to hold those executables. There's no git stuff in /home/zbrown/bin.

Be well, Zack

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Zack Brown