Re: Scripted clone generating an incomplete, unusable .git/config

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2010, 10:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20101111103742.GA16422@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik7-QzrMKDpV=W4dqpuguZsAr5yrMELmHu5NZMd@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Dun Peal wrote:

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>   $ python -c "import os; os.popen('git clone git@git.domain.com:repos/repo.git')"
>   [...]
>   $ cat repo/.git/config
>   [branch "master"]
>           remote = origin
>           merge = refs/heads/master

It looks like you've probably figured it out already, but for completeness:

Most likely the clone is terminating when Python exits, perhaps due to SIGPIPE. It doesn't look like a bug to me; I suspect you meant to use os.system(), which is synchronous, instead. You might be able to get a better sense of what happened with GIT_TRACE=1 or strace.

Hope that helps, Jonathan