RE: Moving git

From: Richard <richard@webdezign.co.uk>
Date: Oct 20, 2009, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <8440EA2C12E50645A68C4AA9887166512446DD@SERVER.webdezign.local>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910201222080.14365@iabervon.org>

Thanks to anyone for the reply, but this issue has been resolved. I might have submitted this several times, but Nabble keeps on nagging me about multiple posts. So I'm just going to delete it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Barkalow [mailto:barkalow@iabervon.org] 
Sent: 20 October 2009 17:34
To: Richard
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Moving git

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Richard Lee wrote:

> 
> Hi Git forum,
> 
> I've just started using git yesterday, so I'm very new. So please

excuse if

> I've done something the wrong way.
> 
> I cloned a git directory/repository? and then moved it. I'm trying to

prune

> branches and it gives
> 
> ]fatal: '/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.co.uk/b2.git': unable to chdir or

not a

> git archive
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> ls-remote --heads /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.co.uk/b2.git: command

returned

> error: 1
> 
> b2.git was the cloned bare thing I create following the instruction

here:

> 
> http://book.git-scm.com/4_setting_up_a_private_repository.html
> 
> Is there someway I can get git to update the git base directory?

The exact problem, I think, is that your clone has saved the original location of the bare repository as the default upstream repository location, and now it's not there. (It's a little hard to tell without the command that you were running when you got the error.)

If you edit the clone's .git/config, you should see the old location in a '[remote "origin"]' section. If you change this to the new location, everything should work. You can also do it with "git remote" somehow, but I personally just edit the config file, so I don't know the details.

	-Daniel
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