Re: What am I doing wrong?

[Paul Gardiner <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 15:40:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, 16 May 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> >
> > > Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > > > Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 14:32:
> > > > > Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > > > > > Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 13:25:
> > > > > > > I create the initial repository with
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >      git-clone /<full-path>/<name>.git/ <folder>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > That works fine, but then I can't fetch. git-fetch gives the error
> > > > > > > "fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive"
> > > > > > > "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > P.
> > > > > > Are you trying to clone a bare repository?
> > > > > > Or is your repo maybe at /<full-path>/<name> with a .git subdir?
> > > > > Yes, a bare repository.
> > > > Then, maybe the full list of command lines (including cd and git-fetch)
> > > > would be helpful in order to track this down.
> > > Ok, sorry, thought it was probable something really obvious. Here's the
> > > sequence (using git version 1.5.4).
> > >
> > > $ git-clone /big/git/paul.git/ epage
> > > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/paul/epage/.git/
> > > 719749 bolcks
> >
> > Something tells me that this is not a copy/paste ;-)
>
> Let's just hope that's not units of boelkstoff ;)
>
> > > $ cd epage
> > > $ git-fetch
> > > fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> > > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> >
> > Is there a "[remote "origin"]" section in .git/config?  What Git 
> > version is this, anyway?
>
> 1.5.4
>
> Could git trip over that trailing slash? git 1.5.5.1 certainly doesn't.

The documentation suggests having the trailing slash, and I think I
tried without, but I'll try again just in case.

> BTW: The above shows something that confused me initially about cloning: 
> git reports the creation of an empty repo, nothing else. But it does 
> much more, of course, just without reporting.

Oh yeah, I realise the fetch is already done by the clone, and that
git-fetch wouldn't bring anything new in right after the clone, but
there are other pushers for that repo.

P.
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