Re: git-clone: Unobvious error messages when update-server-info has not been run

From: Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>
Date: Dec 17, 2007, 15:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20071217154742.GI14889@albany.tokkee.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071217124359.GA20800@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi Jeff,

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:43:59AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Sebastian Harl wrote:
> > I was just trying to clone a repository using http but missed to run
> > git-update-server-info on the server side. git-clone aborted with the
> > following error messages:
> > 
> >   % git clone http://some/repo.git
> >   Initialized empty Git repository in /path/repo/.git/
> >   cat: /path/repo/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master: No such file or directory
> >   cd: 482: can't cd to /path/repo/.git/refs/remotes/origin
> >   fatal: : not a valid SHA1
> >   fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD
> > 
> > It's kind of hard to guess where the error comes from in this case (I blamed
> > Git at first). Is there some way to improve the error message in a case like
> > this?
> 
> git-clone is supposed to detect this condition, but there was a bug in
> the error checking code. Can you confirm that this patch fixes it?

Yes, this patch seems to fix it. Thanks.

Cheers, Sebastian

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