Re: git-fetch does not work from .git subdirectory

Just a hunch but your remote's location uses a relative path '../linux-2.6.git', perhaps git is messing up what the path is relative to.

I assume this repo is beside the linux.cq-test repo? ie. perhaps they're located at /home/user/git/linux.cq-test and /home/user/git/linux-2.6.git.

Then, for example, from linux.cq-test it looks for /home/user/git/linux-2.6.git but from linux.cq-test/.git it looks for /home/user/git/linux.cq-test/linux-2.6.git, which is wrong.

Note sure what the fix will be though as it'll likely break existing repositories that use relative paths either way. Can you try an absolute path to see if that fixes thing?

Patrik

On Tue Nov 20 17:24:22 2012, Timur Tabi wrote:

I was under the impression that git commands which affect repository (as
opposed to the local file system) work from any subdirectory inside the
repository.  For example:

[b04825@efes linux.cq-test]$ git log -1
commit f35d179fde24be5e1675b1df9f7a49b8d95561b2
Author: Timur Tabi [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Oct 31 15:56:20 2012 +0200
...
[b04825@efes linux.cq-test]$ cd .git
[b04825@efes .git]$ git log -1
commit f35d179fde24be5e1675b1df9f7a49b8d95561b2
Author: Timur Tabi [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Oct 31 15:56:20 2012 +0200
...

It appears, however, that git-fetch does not work this way:

[b04825@efes linux.cq-test]$ git fetch upstream master
 From ../linux-2.6
  * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
[b04825@efes linux.cq-test]$ cd .git
[b04825@efes .git]$ git fetch upstream master
fatal: '../linux-2.6.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

This makes it complicated because git hooks run from the .git directory on
normal repositories, but they run from the top-level directory on bare
repositories.  Apparently, you need to be in the top-level directory for
git-fetch to run in any kind of repository.