From: Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer@fsfe.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 18788@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18788: 24.4; vc-git-working-revision vs mode-line gives error
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:53:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iofka07i.fsf@mm.st> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54CF775E.2090408@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:10:54 +0200")
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Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> On 01/31/2015 03:09 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
>
>> The repo I've seen it with under ~ if that makes any difference (ie.
>> ~/.git) – I can't remember if I've seen it other places.
>
> Is '~/.git' the name of the directory under version control? That
> could be the cause of your problem: there is a directory with this
> name in (almost) every Git repository, and it's used to store all
> version control information. Git could be getting confused by this
> name.
No, sorry for the confusion; ~ is the directory under version control, I
just mentioned that to indicate where the root of the version-controlled
repo was :-)
>> I get
>>
>> fatal: Not a git repository: .git
>
> This points to the above explanation. However, it's odd that you can't
> reproduce the problem reliably.
>
>> Notably, this only happens with files that are in subdirectories of ~
>> (but still tracked by the ~ repo), not with files that are directly
>> inside ~. E.g. it happens with ~/org/gtd.org, but not with ~/.gitignore.
>
> Did that happen with files inside ~/org/gtd.org? Was the error message
> the same?
It happened with any file in a subdirectory of ~, but not with files
directly in ~
>> When I restarted emacs to see if it had anything to do with my init.el,
>> the bug was gone again.
>
> Yeah, I think we'll need a solid reproduction to fix it.
Yes :-/
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-22 8:31 bug#18788: 24.4; vc-git-working-revision vs mode-line gives error Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
2014-12-14 11:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-12-15 9:50 ` Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
2015-01-31 13:09 ` Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
2015-02-02 13:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-02-02 13:53 ` Kevin Brubeck Unhammer [this message]
2015-12-26 16:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-27 8:15 ` Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
2015-02-11 6:08 ` nil
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