On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:12:42PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:09:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> A quick fix is obviously to remove the extra prefix but it makes me wonder > >> how these two "stable" repositories were prepared differently. Could this > >> be a regression in "git clone"? Or perhaps you "clone -s"'s Linus's > >> repository slightly differently between them? > > > > That's odd. > > > > Chris was the one that created the .24 tree and I created the .25 tree, > > so we must have done so differently, sorry. > > No need to be sorry. Thanks for raising the issue up. > > I think I have one possible explanation. When "git clone" was rewritten > in C some time ago, it started to dereference symlinks, and newer git > would dereference /pub -> /home/ftp/pub when you do: > > git clone -s --bare /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6/ linux-2.6.2x.y > > while the scripted version used to keep /pub/scm path. > > A bit further digging is necessary to make sure if we can fix this easily, > but I suspect this is worth fixing. I can duplicate what I did, and it did it again: on master.kernel.org: $ cd /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/ $ git clone -s --bare ../torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ test $ cat test/objects/info/alternates /home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects I'm guessing this is because /pub/ is a symlink: $ ls -l /pub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 4 2006 /pub -> /home/ftp/pub $ git --version git version 1.5.5.3 thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
