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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-03-12 12:57:18 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-03-12 12:57:18 -0400 |
| commit | ca10c06819aacc50d4423836ce51fc4486803789 (patch) | |
| tree | e96072aef36f12d28d715fd4b7396d3fea4eef4c /doc/bugs/Can__39__t_add_a_git_repo_to_git_annex__58_____34__Invalid_path_repo__47__.git__47__X__34___for_many_X.mdwn | |
| parent | 024dd384140b25f69defd762e41fd5e4af4f3567 (diff) | |
rename files containing :
This is mostly to let the repo check out on windows w/o using cygwin's git.
But, bash completion is also crap with : , so ..
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Can__39__t_add_a_git_repo_to_git_annex__58_____34__Invalid_path_repo__47__.git__47__X__34___for_many_X.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Can__39__t_add_a_git_repo_to_git_annex__58_____34__Invalid_path_repo__47__.git__47__X__34___for_many_X.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6c7444afd --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Can__39__t_add_a_git_repo_to_git_annex__58_____34__Invalid_path_repo__47__.git__47__X__34___for_many_X.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +I have some git repositories I don't edit often that I'd like to back up. I'd like to add these to my git annex, so I don't have to resort to a time-consuming hack (such as setting up a proper submodule, or bundling the repositories). + +But when I try to add a .git directory to git annex, I get a bunch of errors of the form + + git-annex: user error (xargs ["-0","git","--git-dir=/tmp/tmp.LhGN3nT9uM/annex/.git","--work-tree=/tmp/tmp.LhGN3nT9uM/annex","add","--"] exited 123) + failed + git-annex: add: 1 failed + add repo/.git/hooks/pre-push.sample ok + (Recording state in git...) + error: Invalid path 'repo/.git/hooks/pre-push.sample' + error: unable to add repo/.git/hooks/pre-push.sample to index + fatal: adding files failed + +STR: + + $ mkdir annex + $ cd annex + annex$ git init + annex$ git annex init + annex$ cd .. + + $ mkdir repo + $ cd repo + repo$ git init + repo$ cd .. + + $ mv repo annex + $ cd annex + annex$ find repo | xargs -n1 git annex add + # Lots of errors of the form above. + +You can't simply do `git annex add repo` because that will ignore the .git directory. Similarly,` git annex add .git` (which I'd think really should try to add the contents of the .git directory) ignores everything. + +I don't know what this error means. Is there a right way to work around this? + +> [[!meta title="cannot add .git/ to a git repository. even when using git-annex."]] +> [[!taglink confirmed]] (but may be out of scope for git-annex) --[[Joey]] |