Re: Moving git

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Oct 20, 2009, 16:33 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910201222080.14365@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <25926819.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Richard Lee wrote:

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> 
> 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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