Re: [PATCH] stgit: fix clone

> On 11/01/06, Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Chuck Lever wrote:
>>
>>>seems to me the "git clone" script should create an environment where
>>>"git-rev-parse --git-dir" ought to work correctly.
>>
>>stgit/main.py does a special stack.Series('master') just for the clone
>>command.  it really shouldn't do this -- the crt_series.init() in the
>>clone command ought to be fixed to do this properly.
> 
> 
> If the stack.Series() doesn't get a parameter, it will try to get the
> default branch using 'git-symbolic-ref HEAD'. Any command run outside
> a tree (and which doesn't have the -h option) would fail. The clone
> command is the only one allowed to run outside a tree and that's why I
> passed a default branch name. This is to avoid the creation of another
> stack.Series() object later when the git tree was cloned.
> 
> See the attached patch for a different fix and let me know if there
> are any issues with it. I should probably release 0.8.1 with the fixed
> bugs.