Re: still unclear on setting up a repository

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 20, 2005, 02:10 UTC
Message-ID: <437FDB27.1030709@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <86y83k6ry0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

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>>>And then, another "go-boom" problem:
>>>% cg-fetch
>>>Hard links don't work - using copy
>>>Fetching head...
>>>cp: illegal option -- d
> 
> 
> Andreas> I think this was resolved some weeks ago. Perhaps you could try the
> Andreas> latest cogito from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git ?
> 
> I'm grabbing nearly hourly.
> 
>     localhost:~/MIRROR/cogito-GIT % cg-status
>     Heads:
>        >master      22ff47e9b3c5fc8aa2efbc5ac8690b06b868ef6f
>       R origin      22ff47e9b3c5fc8aa2efbc5ac8690b06b868ef6f
> 
> Error with this version.
>

You're right. It was the '-b' option that was removed earlier (which you reported as well, ten days ago).

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> Andreas> As for rsync; From the output you posted above, you were setting up
> Andreas> both the repositories on your local machine. Using rsync for those
> Andreas> cases would be pretty stupid.
> 
> rsync instead of cp if you really need "-d".
>

There are other problems with rsync. It would actually be faster to use the git-daemon on localhost than using rsync for operations between two local repositories.

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> Andreas> On a side-note, could you please turn off your spamvertising
> Andreas> auto-reply? It sends me some info about your perl-expertise and
> Andreas> contact-numbers every now and then. It's getting a bit annoying.
> 
> If you email me directly, you'll get that note no more than once per
> month.  Some day, I'll create a system to whitelist people that never
> want to see it again.  Damn TUIT shortage. :)
>

It's not the amount of mail that annoys me. It's the principle of the thing. Perhaps you can use a different email when participating in list discussions? It's not exactly right to ask others to tell you they don't want your spam after all.

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