# bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone' 4 messages from 2010-05-26 to 2010-05-26. Participants: James Tucker, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23913 ## James Tucker, 2010-05-26 12:48 Subject: bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone' Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/E4D176D9-E1D2-4C8F-8F18-11060E49ED80%40gmail.com ``` 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, 2010-05-26 13:07 Subject: Re: bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone' Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTinSKgn5IgO3F-gqy-7RTs36Xe_9NB1dvRQrq4SK%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:48 PM, James Tucker 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, 2010-05-26 13:13 Subject: Re: bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone' Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CD06D0C2-BE89-4ECE-A453-CF5FD69A4B55%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On 26 May 2010, at 10:07, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:48 PM, James Tucker 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, 2010-05-26 16:39 Subject: Re: bug with 'cl' as alias for 'clone' Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTikVStq4KCp94GplKl0TwANKYlzMmp3IZrwvP6fU%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:48 PM, James Tucker wrote: > 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 ```