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git-new-workdir not working right?

Subject: git-new-workdir not working right?

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4 messages between Apr 14, 2009 and Apr 15, 2009.

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Caleb Cushing· Apr 14, 2009, 04:09 UTC · lore

before I could do git-new-workdir path/to/repo/.git neworkdirname now that doesn't seem to work... I actually had to cd to path/to/repo/.git and do git-new-workdir . ../.../neworkdirname to get it to work. it was complaining that the .git/ wasn't a git repo.

using git 1.6.2.3

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Julian Phillips· Apr 14, 2009, 14:47 UTC · re: Caleb Cushing · lore

Re: git-new-workdir not working right?

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Caleb Cushing wrote:

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> before I could do git-new-workdir path/to/repo/.git neworkdirname now
> that doesn't seem to work... I actually had to cd to path/to/repo/.git
> and do git-new-workdir . ../.../neworkdirname to get it to work. it
> was complaining that the .git/ wasn't a git repo.
>
> using git 1.6.2.3

Works fine for me. Are you sure you didn't have a typo in your original git-new-workdir invocation? If so, could you supply:

  1) the complete output of running git-new-workdir
  2) the output of "git rev-parse --git-dir" run in path/to/repo/.git

Also, you shouldn't need to supply the .git, so "git new-workdir path/to/repo newworkdirname" should also work, have you tried that?

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Caleb Cushing· Apr 15, 2009, 10:31 UTC · re: Julian Phillips · lore

Re: git-new-workdir not working right?

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:

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> Works fine for me.  Are you sure you didn't have a typo in your original
> git-new-workdir invocation?  If so, could you supply:
>
>  1) the complete output of running git-new-workdir
>  2) the output of "git rev-parse --git-dir" run in path/to/repo/.git
>
> Also, you shouldn't need to supply the .git, so "git new-workdir
> path/to/repo newworkdirname" should also work, have you tried that?
>

git-new-workdir portage/ test /home/port/portdev/.bin/git-new-workdir: line 58: cd: /home/port/portdev/tree/portage .git: No such file or directory /home/port/portdev/tree/test cp: cannot stat `/home/port/portdev/tree/HEAD': No such file or directory fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

git-new-workdir portage/.git/ test /home/port/portdev/.bin/git-new-workdir: line 58: cd: /home/port/portdev/tree/portage/.git .: No such file or directory /home/port/portdev/tree/test cp: cannot stat `/home/port/portdev/tree/HEAD': No such file or directory fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

git rev-parse --git-dir portage/ fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

cd portage/ /home/port/portdev/tree/portage slave-iv portage $ git rev-parse --git-dir . .git .

git-new-workdir . ../test/ << seems to work too.

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Julian Phillips· Apr 15, 2009, 12:22 UTC · re: Caleb Cushing · lore

Re: git-new-workdir not working right?

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Caleb Cushing wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Julian Phillips
> <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
>> Works fine for me.  Are you sure you didn't have a typo in your original
>> git-new-workdir invocation?  If so, could you supply:
>>
>>  1) the complete output of running git-new-workdir
>>  2) the output of "git rev-parse --git-dir" run in path/to/repo/.git
>>
>> Also, you shouldn't need to supply the .git, so "git new-workdir
>> path/to/repo newworkdirname" should also work, have you tried that?
>>
>
> git-new-workdir portage/ test
> /home/port/portdev/.bin/git-new-workdir: line 58: cd:
> /home/port/portdev/tree/portage
> .git: No such file or directory
> /home/port/portdev/tree/test
> cp: cannot stat `/home/port/portdev/tree/HEAD': No such file or directory
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>
> git-new-workdir portage/.git/ test
> /home/port/portdev/.bin/git-new-workdir: line 58: cd:
> /home/port/portdev/tree/portage/.git
> .: No such file or directory
> /home/port/portdev/tree/test
> cp: cannot stat `/home/port/portdev/tree/HEAD': No such file or directory
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>
> git rev-parse --git-dir portage/
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>
> cd portage/
> /home/port/portdev/tree/portage
> slave-iv portage $ git rev-parse --git-dir .
> .git
> .
>
> git-new-workdir . ../test/ << seems to work too.
>

*sighs* oh yes, that old chestnut ...

You're exporting CDPATH, this variable shouldn't be exported. This is likely to cause random shell scripts to break.

Alternatively, Putting "unset CDPATH" at the beginning of git-new-workdir should fix it.

This has come up a number of times in the past on the git list. See, for example:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52177/focus=52268

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