git fails to checkout the freedesktop's mesa and xf86-video-ati git repositories. git-checkout returns the error: >>> Unpacking source... * git update start --> * repository: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa fatal: Not a git repository: 'mesa' fatal: Not a git repository: 'mesa' Failed to find a valid git directory. but when i try git-clone on them i can clone the repositories. the problem is that i cannot use the live ebuilds for these projects anymore. as ebuilds i use the ones from the x11, but, before you close the bug as not pertaining, the problem is not ebuild based, but git based since checkout on the repositories doesn't work even manually but clone does. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. git-checkout git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa 2. git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa 3. git-checkout git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati 4. git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati Actual Results: 1. error: no git repository found 2. no error 3. error: no git repository found 4. no error Expected Results: 1. clone/update repository 2. clone repository 3. clone/update repository 4. clone repository paludis 0.26.0_alpha7 Paludis build information: Compiler: CXX: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.2) CXXFLAGS: -O2 -march=k8 -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -mmmx -msse3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -g -ggdb3 LDFLAGS: -Wl,--as-needed,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s DATE: 2008-01-17T08:28:16+0000 Libraries: C++ Library: GNU libstdc++ 20070214 Reduced Privs: reduced_uid: 102 reduced_uid->name: paludisbuild reduced_uid->dir: /dev/null reduced_gid: 440 reduced_gid->name: paludisbuild Paths: DATADIR: /usr/share LIBDIR: /usr/lib64 LIBEXECDIR: /usr/libexec SYSCONFDIR: /etc PYTHONINSTALLDIR: /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages RUBYINSTALLDIR: /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux Repository virtuals: format: virtuals Repository installed-virtuals: format: installed_virtuals root: / Repository gentoo: format: ebuild location: /usr/portage append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /usr/portage/metadata/cache distdir: /var/tmp/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names/gentoo newsdir: /usr/portage/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0 securitydir: /usr/portage/metadata/glsa setsdir: /usr/portage/sets sync: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Package information: app-admin/eselect-compiler: (none) app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/confcache: (none) sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10 1.5 1.6.3 1.7.9-r1 1.8.5-r3 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 (for sys-kernel/linux-headers::installed) Repository installed: format: vdb location: /var/db/pkg builddir: /var/tmp/paludis names_cache: /var/db/pkg/.cache/names provides_cache: /var/db/pkg/.cache/provides root: / world: /var/db/pkg/world Repository aeskulap: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/aeskulap append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /var/tmp/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/aeskulap/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names/aeskulap newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/aeskulap/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0 securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/aeskulap/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/aeskulap/sets sync: sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Repository berkano: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/berkano append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /var/tmp/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/berkano/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names/berkano newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/berkano/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0 securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/berkano/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/berkano/sets sync: svn+http://svn.liveforge.org/berkano/trunk sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Repository flameeyes-overlay: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/flameeyes append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /var/tmp/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/flameeyes/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names/flameeyes newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/flameeyes/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0 securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/flameeyes/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/flameeyes/sets sync: git://flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/overlay.git sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Repository kde4-experimental: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/kde4 append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /var/tmp/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/kde4/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names/kde4 newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/kde4/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0 securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/kde4/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/kde4/sets sync: git://www2.mailstation.de/git/genkde4svn-pub.git sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Repository paludis-extras: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-extras append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /var/tmp/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-extras/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names/paludis-extras newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-extras/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0 securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-extras/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-extras/sets sync: rsync://drzile.dyndns.org/paludis-extras rsync://server.guldbrand.net/paludis-extras sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Repository paludis-overlay: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /var/tmp/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names/paludis-overlay newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0 securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay/sets sync: svn://svn.pioto.org/paludis/overlay sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Repository sabayon: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/sabayon append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /var/tmp/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/sabayon/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names/sabayon newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/sabayon/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0 securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/sabayon/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/sabayon/sets sync: svn+http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/overlay sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Repository sunrise: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/sunrise append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /var/tmp/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/sunrise/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names/sunrise newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/sunrise/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0 securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/sunrise/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/sunrise/sets sync: svn+http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/sunrise/reviewed/ sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Repository x11: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/x11 append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /var/tmp/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/x11/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names/x11 newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/x11/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0 securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/x11/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/x11/sets sync: git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/x11 sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata No packages were specified on the command line, so detailed information is not available (Paludis can display detailed information for both installed and installable packages).
Please, read the documentation before filing bugs. You cannot do any checkout on uninitialized repository. If you need more hints on what you are doing wrong, then see http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/support.xml, bugzilla is not a place for this.
it doesn't work also on a cloned directory!!! the problem is that git doesn't recognize these repositories as git ones. if you cannot believe try out on the xf86-video-ati (reversing steps 3 and 4) and see that you are able to clone it, but you cannot checkout it later (the repo has a 6.1 Mbytes length); also the git_fetch from the eclass doesn't work because it cannot recognize the remote repository as git repository. i don't know about checkout before clone, but what i know is the fact that they're not accessible, either for an xorg git repository either for a git problem. i've tried sending a mail about the problem on the xorg mailing list but there isn't any reply on the matter.
(In reply to comment #2) > it doesn't work also on a cloned directory!!! Could you stop screaming and instead tell us what doesn't work? Here's an idea - post *real* steps to reproduce your issue instead of trying to manually reproduce a process you don't understand, because you are doing it upside down.
# ebuild xf86-video-ati-9999.ebuild unpack Appending /tmp/x11 to PORTDIR_OVERLAY... * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... * Checking for direct rendering capabilities ... * git clone start --> * repository: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/portage/distfiles/git-src/xf86-video-ati/ remote: Generating pack... remote: Counting objects: 1270 Done counting 7918 objects. remote: Deltifying 7918 objects... remote: 100% (7918/7918) done Indexing 7918 objects... remote: Total 7918 (delta 6275), reused 0 (delta 0) 100% (7918/7918) done Resolving 6275 deltas... 100% (6275/6275) done * local clone: /usr/portage/distfiles/git-src/xf86-video-ati * committish: master >>> Unpacked to /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-9999/work/xf86-video-ati-9999 * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-9999/work/xf86-video-ati-9999' ... * Running aclocal ... [ ok ] * Running libtoolize --copy --force --automake ... [ ok ] * Running aclocal ... [ ok ] * Running autoconf ... [ ok ] * Running autoheader ... [ ok ] * Running automake --add-missing --copy --foreign ... [ ok ] * Running elibtoolize in: xf86-video-ati-9999 * Applying sed-1.5.6.patch ... >>> Source unpacked. # rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ # ebuild xf86-video-ati-9999.ebuild unpack Appending /tmp/x11 to PORTDIR_OVERLAY... * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... * Checking for direct rendering capabilities ... * git update start --> * repository: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati * local clone: /usr/portage/distfiles/git-src/xf86-video-ati * committish: master >>> Unpacked to /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-9999/work/xf86-video-ati-9999 * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-9999/work/xf86-video-ati-9999' ... * Running aclocal ... [ ok ] * Running libtoolize --copy --force --automake ... [ ok ] * Running aclocal ... [ ok ] * Running autoconf ... [ ok ] * Running autoheader ... [ ok ] * Running automake --add-missing --copy --foreign ... [ ok ] * Running elibtoolize in: xf86-video-ati-9999 * Applying sed-1.5.6.patch ... >>> Source unpacked.
well, it seems that i'm not able to do this. i don't know where i do wrong but i can only duplicate the remote repository with git-clone. well, i'll try figuring out what is wrong on my system since it seems to work on your's. sorry for having you loose time.
