Re: rc4 - make quick-install-doc is broken

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 4, 2007, 16:21 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708041719490.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46B4A5FD.3070107@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Mark Levedahl wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > Could you please
> > 
> > 	GIT_TRACE=1 make quick-install-doc
> > 
> > ? It breaks here, too, but because I have no origin/man branch.
> > 
> > Ciao,
> > Dscho
> > 
> > 
> >   
> git>GIT_TRACE=1 make prefix=/usr quick-install-doc
> make -C Documentation quick-install
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/git/Documentation'
> make -C ../ GIT-VERSION-FILE
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/git'
> make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/git'
> sh ./install-doc-quick.sh origin/man /usr/share/man
> trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--git-dir'
> trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--verify' 'origin/man^0'
> trace: built-in: git 'read-tree' 'origin/man'
> trace: built-in: git 'checkout-index' '-a' '-f' '--prefix=/usr/share/man/'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/git/Documentation'

At this point, could you try debugging it? For example, set a break point in set_work_tree(), since that is the only function that commit touches, and see what it returns both before and after the bad commit?

Ciao, Dscho