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bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone'

Subject: bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone'

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4 messages between May 26, 2010 and May 26, 2010.

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James Tucker· May 26, 2010, 12:48 UTC · lore

I've been running the following aliases for a long time now:

alias g='git' # in bash

% cat ~/.gitconfig | grep clone
  cl = clone

This appears to still be calling the right UI command:

% g cl You must specify a repository to clone. ...

But when I try to actually clone a repository:

% ls rdbi
ls: rdbi: No such file or directory
% g cl http://github.com/erikh/rdbi.git
fatal: cannot set work tree after initialization
* ls -la rdbi/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 raggi  staff    68 26 May 09:46 .
drwxr-xr-x  251 raggi  staff  8534 26 May 09:46 ..

So then, I try it with 'clone' instead of 'cl', and it works (after removing the dead initialized repo in ./rdbi):

* rm -rf rdbi/
% g clone http://github.com/erikh/rdbi.git
Initialized empty Git repository in ...

I could look into this later on when I'm not at $work, but as I have no knowledge of the UI internals, it'd be great if someone in the know could track this down.

Thanks in advance,

James

Ramkumar Ramachandra· May 26, 2010, 13:07 UTC · re: James Tucker · lore

Re: bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone'

Hi,

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:48 PM, James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com> wrote:

> % g cl http://github.com/erikh/rdbi.git
> fatal: cannot set work tree after initialization

I'm not able to reproduce this with Git 1.7. Which version are you using?

-- Ram

James Tucker· May 26, 2010, 13:13 UTC · re: Ramkumar Ramachandra · lore

Re: bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone'

On 26 May 2010, at 10:07, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:48 PM, James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> % g cl http://github.com/erikh/rdbi.git
>> fatal: cannot set work tree after initialization
> 
> I'm not able to reproduce this with Git 1.7. Which version are you using?

I was using 1.7.1.

Someone in the IRC channel 'doener' spotted it after some tracing and so on. I was cloning inside a working dir of another repo, and this was causing the problem.

Thanks to everyone for their help!

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy· May 26, 2010, 16:39 UTC · re: James Tucker · lore

Re: bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone'

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:48 PM, James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I've been running the following aliases for a long time now:
>
> alias g='git' # in bash
>
> % cat ~/.gitconfig | grep clone
>  cl = clone
>
> This appears to still be calling the right UI command:
>
> % g cl
> You must specify a repository to clone.
> ...
>
> But when I try to actually clone a repository:
>
> % ls rdbi
> ls: rdbi: No such file or directory
> % g cl http://github.com/erikh/rdbi.git
> fatal: cannot set work tree after initialization

There is something with alias and work tree setup that I should have addressed it with my series. I suspect that is the cause of this. Unfortunately I have been too lazy these days. I'll try to work on it again maybe this weekend.

-- 
Duy