StGIT munged path on refresh

Andy Green· Jun 4, 2007, 08:24 UTC · lore

Hi folks -

I have been using quilt with some success and now I am trying to migrate to stgit. I can get started okay with stg init and stg new "mypatch", stg refresh then picks up modifications without having to be told about the changed files, very nice.

However after I have modified several files in the tree, stg refresh breaks without my having changed anything in the meantime to do with stgit. The problem looks like this:

$ stg refresh Checking for changes in the working directory... done Refreshing patch "mISDN-remove-unused-test-from-bitops.patch"...error: drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/appl.c: does not exist and --remove not passed fatal: Unable to process file drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/appl.c stg refresh: Failed git-update-index

$ pwd /projects/octotux/packages/mISDN-1.2.0/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN $ ls appl.c appl.c

The tree starts at /projects/octotux/packages/mISDN-1.2.0, ie, there is a .git/ in there. Notice that in the diagnostic, the path after the start of the tree is repeated twice :-( but I did not run any stg or git commands between a successful stg refresh and the first broken one.

In case it is important, I am working on a branch called "portability".

This is with

# rpm -q git-core git-core-1.5.0.6-1.fc7 # rpm -q stgit stgit-0.12.1-2.fc7

-Andy

Andy Green· Jun 4, 2007, 10:36 UTC · re: Andy Green · lore

Re: StGIT munged path on refresh

Andy Green wrote:

> I have been using quilt with some success and now I am trying to migrate
> to stgit.  I can get started okay with stg init and stg new "mypatch",

Sorry for the noise -- I found this is a FAQ, you currently have to do the refresh at the top of the tree, unlike in quilt.

-Andy

Catalin Marinas· Jun 4, 2007, 15:35 UTC · re: Andy Green · lore

Re: StGIT munged path on refresh

On 04/06/07, Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> wrote:

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> Andy Green wrote:
>
> > I have been using quilt with some success and now I am trying to migrate
> > to stgit.  I can get started okay with stg init and stg new "mypatch",
>
> Sorry for the noise -- I found this is a FAQ, you currently have to do
> the refresh at the top of the tree, unlike in quilt.

Fixing StGIT to run correctly in subdirectories is on my to-do list, only that I haven't had time to look at it yet.

-- 
Catalin