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

Patrik Gornicz wrote:

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.

That makes sense.  Git is looking at the URL and not realizing that it's
relative to the home directory.

[remote "upstream"]
	url = ../linux-2.6.git/
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/upstream/*

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?

If I change that to

[remote "upstream"]
	url = /home/b04825/git/linux-2.6.git/
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/upstream/*

then everything works.

IMHO, this is a bug in git.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale