# Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository 6 messages from 2011-08-20 to 2011-08-21. Participants: Richard Tibbitt, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/28175 ## Richard Tibbitt, 2011-08-20 17:47 Subject: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository Message-ID: <6csv47te4qv41ni53q0kf1fne0a4e1grnm@4ax.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/6csv47te4qv41ni53q0kf1fne0a4e1grnm%404ax.com ``` Hi I've been struggling to find an answer to this for days. Can anyone confirm whether I've got the syntax right for 'Git clone' when attempting to clone FROM a repository that was initialized using --separate-git-dir ? If so, does this work on Linux systems ? With Git on windows (git version 1.7.6.msysgit.0 installed from GitExtensions224SetupComplete.msi) I get an error as below, that looks as though 'Git clone' is expecting the repo to have a 'normal' integral .git dir F:\>mkdir repo2 F:\>mkdir repo2git F:\>cd repo2 F:\repo2>call git init --separate-git-dir="..\repo2git\.git" Initialized empty Git repository in F:/repo2git/.git/ F:\repo2>echo abc >file1.txt F:\repo2>call git add . -A F:\repo2>call git commit -m "first" [master (root-commit) c7e4766] first 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 file1.txt F:\repo2>cd .. F:\>call git clone repo2 clone2 Cloning into clone2... fatal: failed to open 'F:/repo2/objects': No such file or directory Many thanks in advance for any insight into this. Richard ``` ## Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, 2011-08-20 18:25 Subject: Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CACsJy8AavETJb-Lm0Qd6Sz54zYbgvDUWmf%2BuXYTxO3%2BiYNHvoA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <6csv47te4qv41ni53q0kf1fne0a4e1grnm@4ax.com> ``` On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Richard Tibbitt wrote: >  F:\>call git clone repo2 clone2 >  Cloning into clone2... >  fatal: failed to open 'F:/repo2/objects': No such file or directory This should be "git clone repo2/.git clone2", but with that command I got Cloning into clone2.. error: '/tmp/repo2/.git' does not look like a v2 bundle file fatal: Could not read bundle '/tmp/repo2/.git'. You just do "git clone repo2git/.git clone2" for now. -- Duy ``` ## Richard Tibbitt, 2011-08-20 18:56 Subject: Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/p800579qgdoocnq388veh5gpjbu7r9ph52%404ax.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:25:36 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: >This should be "git clone repo2/.git clone2", but with that command I got > >Cloning into clone2.. >error: '/tmp/repo2/.git' does not look like a v2 bundle file >fatal: Could not read bundle '/tmp/repo2/.git'. > >You just do "git clone repo2git/.git clone2" for now. Hi - thanks for trying that Unfortunately I'm getting :- call git clone repo2git\.git clone2 fatal: repository 'repo2git\.git' does not exist & similarly call git clone repo2\.git clone2 fatal: repository 'repo2\.git' does not exist I guess this must be a peculiarity of msysgit on windows. ``` ## Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, 2011-08-21 03:27 Subject: Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CACsJy8A4kvjn5Bgo6FtS%2Bx4z%3DCRz8ctoDHh7D8XV3frOjDVfbw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Richard Tibbitt wrote: > call git clone repo2git\.git clone2 > fatal: repository 'repo2git\.git' does not exist > > I guess this must be a peculiarity of msysgit on windows. Yes. Try "call git clone repo2git/.git clone2" (forward slash). The forward slash is hard coded some places in git-clone. I just want to make sure you dont hit another problem. -- Duy ``` ## Richard Tibbitt, 2011-08-21 11:13 Subject: Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/upp157hv6v33nlfpsoeh68kqc7fvpdv7ig%404ax.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:27:44 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: >Yes. Try "call git clone repo2git/.git clone2" (forward slash). The >forward slash is hard coded some places in git-clone. I just want to >make sure you dont hit another problem. Thanks for that - same result sadly. I'll see what the guys on the msysgit list say about it. Richard ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2011-08-21 18:51 Subject: Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository Message-ID: <7vippqy4w0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vippqy4w0.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy writes: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Richard Tibbitt wrote: >> call git clone repo2git\.git clone2 >> fatal: repository 'repo2git\.git' does not exist >> >> I guess this must be a peculiarity of msysgit on windows. > > Yes. Try "call git clone repo2git/.git clone2" (forward slash). The > forward slash is hard coded some places in git-clone. I just want to > make sure you dont hit another problem. As "fetch from bundle" (2e0afaf (Add git-bundle: move objects and references by archive, 2007-02-22)) predates the "gitdir:" support (b44ebb1 (Add platform-independent .git "symlink", 2008-02-20)) by a wide margin, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the logic went "If the name can be stat()ed and is a regular file, it must be a bundle. Otherwise it is a local clone if it is a directory. All else ask the transport and see what it says". Why can't it be "git clone repo2git clone2" in the first place? ```