still unclear on setting up a repository

still unclear on setting up a repository

[Randal L. Schwartz]

I'm really unclear here if it's me, the code, or the docs...

first, create the "remote"

        % cg-admin-setuprepo remote.git

that works fine, now set up the "local"

        % mkdir local.git
        % cd local-git
        % cg-init -m "junk message why should I have to do this one, it's dumb"

Now here's where I'm unclear.  I need to "push" this into the remote,
so I try this:

        % cg-branch-add origin "$(cd ..; pwd)/remote.git#master"
        % cg-branch-ls

This seems to report the right thing.  I have a branch "origin"
that points at the remote repository.  So far, I think I'm understanding
what's happening.  But now, go boom:

        % cg-push
        cg-push: where to push to?

Huh?  How do I do the initial push?  Not this way?  Is it me, docs, or
code that is broken here?

UPDATE...

aha... "cg-push origin" works.  But "cg-push" is documented to
default to "origin".  Why doesn't it?

And then, another "go-boom" problem:

    % cg-fetch
    Hard links don't work - using copy
    Fetching head...
    cp: illegal option -- d
    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 pointer of branch master

Any chance you could make this more POSIX-like?  I know you have a big
warning in README.osx, but are you *really* needing all those weird
GNU-isms?  Maybe you could fall back to using rsync to copy exactly
what you need?

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Re: still unclear on setting up a repository

[Andreas Ericsson]

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> And then, another "go-boom" problem:
> 
>     % cg-fetch
>     Hard links don't work - using copy
>     Fetching head...
>     cp: illegal option -- d


I think this was resolved some weeks ago. Perhaps you could try the 
latest cogito from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git ?

> 
> Any chance you could make this more POSIX-like?  I know you have a big
> warning in README.osx, but are you *really* needing all those weird
> GNU-isms?  Maybe you could fall back to using rsync to copy exactly
> what you need?
> 

There aren't that many. This particular one was a typo, iirc.

As for rsync; From the output you posted above, you were setting up both 
the repositories on your local machine. Using rsync for those cases 
would be pretty stupid.

On a side-note, could you please turn off your spamvertising auto-reply? 
It sends me some info about your perl-expertise and contact-numbers 
every now and then. It's getting a bit annoying.

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Re: still unclear on setting up a repository

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

Andreas> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>> And then, another "go-boom" problem:
>> % cg-fetch
>> Hard links don't work - using copy
>> Fetching head...
>> cp: illegal option -- d


Andreas> I think this was resolved some weeks ago. Perhaps you could try the
Andreas> latest cogito from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git ?

I'm grabbing nearly hourly.

    localhost:~/MIRROR/cogito-GIT % cg-status
    Heads:
       >master      22ff47e9b3c5fc8aa2efbc5ac8690b06b868ef6f
      R origin      22ff47e9b3c5fc8aa2efbc5ac8690b06b868ef6f

Error with this version.

Andreas> As for rsync; From the output you posted above, you were setting up
Andreas> both the repositories on your local machine. Using rsync for those
Andreas> cases would be pretty stupid.

rsync instead of cp if you really need "-d".

Andreas> On a side-note, could you please turn off your spamvertising
Andreas> auto-reply? It sends me some info about your perl-expertise and
Andreas> contact-numbers every now and then. It's getting a bit annoying.

If you email me directly, you'll get that note no more than once per
month.  Some day, I'll create a system to whitelist people that never
want to see it again.  Damn TUIT shortage. :)

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Re: still unclear on setting up a repository

[Andreas Ericsson]

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>And then, another "go-boom" problem:
>>>% cg-fetch
>>>Hard links don't work - using copy
>>>Fetching head...
>>>cp: illegal option -- d
> 
> 
> Andreas> I think this was resolved some weeks ago. Perhaps you could try the
> Andreas> latest cogito from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git ?
> 
> I'm grabbing nearly hourly.
> 
>     localhost:~/MIRROR/cogito-GIT % cg-status
>     Heads:
>        >master      22ff47e9b3c5fc8aa2efbc5ac8690b06b868ef6f
>       R origin      22ff47e9b3c5fc8aa2efbc5ac8690b06b868ef6f
> 
> Error with this version.
> 

You're right. It was the '-b' option that was removed earlier (which you 
reported as well, ten days ago).

> Andreas> As for rsync; From the output you posted above, you were setting up
> Andreas> both the repositories on your local machine. Using rsync for those
> Andreas> cases would be pretty stupid.
> 
> rsync instead of cp if you really need "-d".
> 

There are other problems with rsync. It would actually be faster to use 
the git-daemon on localhost than using rsync for operations between two 
local repositories.

> Andreas> On a side-note, could you please turn off your spamvertising
> Andreas> auto-reply? It sends me some info about your perl-expertise and
> Andreas> contact-numbers every now and then. It's getting a bit annoying.
> 
> If you email me directly, you'll get that note no more than once per
> month.  Some day, I'll create a system to whitelist people that never
> want to see it again.  Damn TUIT shortage. :)
> 

It's not the amount of mail that annoys me. It's the principle of the 
thing. Perhaps you can use a different email when participating in list 
discussions? It's not exactly right to ask others to tell you they don't 
want your spam after all.

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Re: still unclear on setting up a repository

[Petr Baudis]

Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:14:47AM CET, I got a letter
where "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> said that...
> >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> 
> Andreas> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >> And then, another "go-boom" problem:
> >> % cg-fetch
> >> Hard links don't work - using copy
> >> Fetching head...
> >> cp: illegal option -- d
> 
> 
> Andreas> I think this was resolved some weeks ago. Perhaps you could try the
> Andreas> latest cogito from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git ?
> 
> I'm grabbing nearly hourly.
> 
>     localhost:~/MIRROR/cogito-GIT % cg-status
>     Heads:
>        >master      22ff47e9b3c5fc8aa2efbc5ac8690b06b868ef6f
>       R origin      22ff47e9b3c5fc8aa2efbc5ac8690b06b868ef6f
> 
> Error with this version.

Hmm, right. I changed the -d to -P, which is basically equivalent for
our situation, and -P is supposed to be POSIX. Thanks.

> Andreas> On a side-note, could you please turn off your spamvertising
> Andreas> auto-reply? It sends me some info about your perl-expertise and
> Andreas> contact-numbers every now and then. It's getting a bit annoying.
> 
> If you email me directly, you'll get that note no more than once per
> month.  Some day, I'll create a system to whitelist people that never
> want to see it again.  Damn TUIT shortage. :)

If you don't want to receive mailing list traffic related to your mails
directly, you can setup your mailer to adjust the 'mail-followup-to'
header appropriately and you should stop getting it twice.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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it doesn't.

Re: still unclear on setting up a repository

[Petr Baudis]

Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 01:40:20AM CET, I got a letter
where "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> said that...
> This seems to report the right thing.  I have a branch "origin"
> that points at the remote repository.  So far, I think I'm understanding
> what's happening.  But now, go boom:
> 
>         % cg-push
>         cg-push: where to push to?
> 
> Huh?  How do I do the initial push?  Not this way?  Is it me, docs, or
> code that is broken here?

The code was broken, cg-push wouldn't default to origin unless you
already had an origin head, which you obviously can't have when you are
going to push for the first time. Thanks, fixed.

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				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.