Dear diary, on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 05:51:35PM CET, I got a letter where "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> said that... > >>>>> "Petr" == Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes: > > Petr> But this is actually an entirely unrelated bug, it seems - pretty > Petr> strange. I revived another few months old thread because of this, since > Petr> it seems the 'b' was actually a typo and we don't want to pass 'cp' this > Petr> argument at all, but something different. Does cloning locally otherwise > Petr> work? > > When I tried "local cloning", I first tried to make an empty archive > with cgi-init, but it dumped me into an editor. I couldn't find a > switch to turn that off. Perhaps the manpage should say "you'll > be dumped in to an editor", Well, that's pretty obvious after the first try. ;-) > and perhaps provide a way to pass that message with "-m". Good idea. Added. > So, on a whim, I realize that it's performing an initial commit, It says that right in the editor, after all. :-) > so I try cg-init -I. > > And here's the result: > > localhost:~/Projects/Git % cg-init -I my_master > defaulting to local storage area > localhost:~/Projects/Git % cg-clone my_master my_slave > defaulting to local storage area > find: /Users/merlyn/Projects/Git/my_master: No such file or directory > Hard links don't work - using copy > Fetching head... > cp: illegal option -- b > usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src target > cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory > cg-fetch: unable to get the HEAD branch > cg-clone: fetch failed > > So, I guess your answer is no. What is "-b" for cp. That's not > on my manpage. It's something totally weird "backup" thing. A bug in Cogito, what we _want_ is to have cp dereferencing its symlink. I replaced it with -L now. Could you try the latest version from git or -rc2 (coming out in few minutes), please? > And, after reading the manpage closer, I see my first "my_master" > was created wrong. But no error message. :( Good catch. Fixed. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sun Nov 13 11:29:58 2005
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