From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:16:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Scripted clone generating an incomplete, unusable .git/config
Message-ID: <AANLkTinzotA4TSjMjjmW--gw7ST3dXMyHzPveGynaVmZ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101111103742.GA16422@burratino>

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dun Peal wrote:
>
>>   $ 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.

If "git clone" is terminated before it completes, shouldn't it clean
the uncompleted repo?
-- 
Duy