On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:12:17PM +0100, Tobias Boesch wrote: > when I clone a git repo (from github or COdeberg) through Git Gui I get > the following GUI error (nothing in the terminal and nothing in > journalctl): > > "Failed to create repository <repo-path>: Hint Using 'master' as the > name for the initial branch. This default branch..." and so on. > > Screenshot > https://i.postimg.cc/66df98MZ/Screenshot-from-2024-03-29-22-06-49.png > > I have no idea what is going on here. Has someone an idea what the > reason could be? I don't work on or use git-gui, but it is written in Tcl/Tk. And IIRC Tcl is very anxious to consider programs that print anything to stderr as "failed". And in this case we are just printing warning/hint diagnostics to stderr. I suspect there are solutions within git-gui's code base to check the actual exit code, and it's just a bug that we're not using them in this instance. But the obvious workaround in the meantime is to set the config that the hint mentions, which should silence it. > Cloning the same source into the same path from command line works. > The cloned git repo opens fine in git gui. Right, the clone is happening fine. It's just that git-gui is incorrectly thinking that it failed. -Peff
