Re: Problem using ./setup-repository: "gbp:error: /path/to/foobar.git is not a git repository"
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Alex Mestiashvili
<alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> On 01/25/2012 07:23 PM, Carlos Borroto wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Alex Mestiashvili
> <alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 01/25/2012 06:55 PM, Carlos Borroto wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm following our policy document to setup proper git repositories,
> for new packages I intent to work on.
>
> I got stuck using the recommended 'setup-repository' script. This is
> what I'm doing:
>
> $ ./setup-repository r-cran-rsqlite 'Packaging for R/CRAN/RSQLite'
> Initialized empty shared Git repository in
> /home/cjavier/src/r-cran-rsqlite.git/
>
> $ cd r-cran-rsqlite.git/
> $ ls
> branches config description HEAD hooks info objects refs
>
> $ git import-orig --pristine-tar ../RSQLite_0.11.1.tar.gz
> gbp:error: /home/cjavier/src/r-cran-rsqlite.git is not a git repository
>
> Am I missing something here? The only thing I can see is the uses of
> "--bare" in 'setup-repository', I tried to read about that option, but
> couldn't quite understand what is for.
>
> Thanks,
> Carlos
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Carlos ,
> its a bare repository and it contains only "metadata" but not working
> files .
> Usually you clone , pull and push to it and it's set as the remote
> origin for your working repository .
>
>
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> If I understand correctly, you are saying this is not the way I should
> create my local working git repository. This is the way I should
> create the remote repository at alioth and then add it as a remote
> repository to my local one, so I can push to it. Is this correct?
>
>
> Yes , absolutely !
>
>
> Pocking around in alioth, I see there is a '/git/debian-med/'
> directory containing our package repositories. Is this where I should
> create bare git repositories for my new packages?
>
>
>
>
> Before pushing to git.debian.org for the first time, an empty repository
> needs to be created there. To do this, use the setup-repository .
>
> Run it similarly to:
>
> $ ssh git.debian.org
> $ cd /git/debian-med/
> $ ./setup-repository libfoo-pkg 'Packaging of FOO in Debian'
>
> This will create an empty, bare, shared Git repository and setup some hooks.
>
> Now, on your local machine add the alioth repository as a remote:
>
> $ git remote add origin
> ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/packages/libfoo-pkg.git
>
> Then push to it:
>
> $ git push --all --set-upstream
> $ git push --tags
>
> The --set-upstream option helps future use of git pull.
>
> taken from http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/git.html
> almost the same is written in the debian-med policy but I liked the way it
> is written here :)
>
>
Great! Maybe it was me, but I didn't take this at all from our policy document.
Thanks again!.
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