Re: git pull -s subtree doesn't work properly

From: Oliver Kullmann <o.kullmann@swansea.ac.uk>
Date: Dec 31, 2009, 19:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20091231193800.GB19537@cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20091105180905.GP17628@cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk>

Hello,

it seems no reply yet (if I understand that web-email-interface properly); has nobody any idea here, or is it a Git bug, or my fault?

To me it seems all pretty normal, so I would be glad to get some reaction.

The situation didn't improve: It seems "subtree" is completely broken --- it has no idea that the files to be pulled are to be placed in a subtree. (The pull via "git pull -s subtree CSM41 master" actually also manages to ignore the ignore-patterns; don't know how this could happen.)

So shouldn't one use this option? Or how can I restart?

I would also need in other situations the ability of Git to have one independent repository (say, at Github), which is also included in some other bigger repository (where it is not changed, only included) --- how to do so if the "subtree"-mechanism doesn't work?

Hope for some help.

Oliver

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 06:09:05PM +0000, Oliver Kullmann wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> using
> 
> IntroductionJava> git remote add -f CSM41 /home/kullmann/csoliver/UofT/Java0910/ProgrammingJava/CS-M41_Programs
> IntroductionJava> git merge -s ours --no-commit CSM41/master
> IntroductionJava> git read-tree --prefix=Artikel/Skripte/IntroductionJava/CS_M41/ -u CSM41/master
> IntroductionJava> git commit -m "Einfuegen des CS-M41-Projektes als Verzeichnis CS_M41"
> 
> I have imported repository "CS-M41_Programs" into another repository. Later then
> I replaced in the config-file the old url /home/kullmann/csoliver/UofT/Java0910/ProgrammingJava/CS-M41_Programs
> by the new one
> 
> [remote "CSM41"]
> 	url = git://github.com/OKullmann/CS-M41-Programming-in-Java.git
> 	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/CSM41/*
> 
> But now
> 
> IntroductionJava> git pull -s subtree CSM41 master
> 
> doesn't work anymore: In the CSM41 repository just one file index.html was changed,
> and apparently the merge strategy recognises that the other files haven't
> been changed, while index.html is placed just as if the relative path would
> start from the root of the repository.
> 
> IntroductionJava> git pull -s subtree CSM41 master
> remote: Counting objects: 7, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
> remote: Total 4 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
> Unpacking objects: 100% (4/4), done.
> >From git://github.com/OKullmann/CS-M41-Programming-in-Java
>  * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
> CONFLICT (delete/modify): Artikel/LaTeX/SystemStile/Html/index.html deleted in HEAD a
> nd modified in 38b11a96fa009a5b2c24cfc94c0268ab9ca7ce39. Version 38b11a96fa009a5b2c24
> cfc94c0268ab9ca7ce39 of Artikel/LaTeX/SystemStile/Html/index.html left in tree.
> Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
> 
> IntroductionJava> git status
> # On branch master
> # Unmerged paths:
> #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to mark resolution)
> #
> #       deleted by us:      ../../LaTeX/SystemStile/Html/index.html
> #
> no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
> 
> The path of index.html is Artikel/Skripte/IntroductionJava/CS_M41/Html/index.html.
> Why git thinks that index.html should be placed into another directory Artikel/LaTeX/SystemStile/Html/
> I have no clue (this directory doesn't exist).
> 
> Is it possible to tell "git pull" where the subtree really is, or is that
> not really the cause of the problem?
> 
> Thanks for your consideration!
> 
> Oliver
> 
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