Re: 'git maintenance' won't work on bare repos

From: Clement Moyroud <clement.moyroud@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 23, 2021, 15:31 UTC
Message-ID: <CABXAcUwdpJa1osz=9xarVgbP9wFK82rbx8J1vk-EZEA5x25ffQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSvYLMtML5ya4GR30-nfNNt19okLjchkkdhdzAEB19H4g@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 9:03 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:

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> > 1. 'git config --global --get maintenance.repo' returns '.'
> > 2. There are no Crontab entries inserted.
>
> I can confirm that problem 1 is a bug. However, I am unable to
> reproduce problem 2.
>
> Note that the crontab entry won't be created until you run `git
> maintenance start`. Is it possible that you are forgetting that step?
> (Be aware that `git maintenance start` will show a misleading "no
> crontab for <user>" message if you don't already have a crontab file,
> but the crontab entry will be created nevertheless, as evidenced by
> `crontab -l`.)
>

My bad. I misread the manpage, and didn't try to run 'git maintenance start' on the bare repo, since the first step did not look right.

> I have a patch which fixes the problem with the bare repo path being
> incorrectly registered as ".", but I still need to create a regression
> test for it.

I saw the patch, thanks for the quick fix!