From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why does make run git?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:30:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vz160dn8zl7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7a270049-7aec-6b99-2a88-06379548b339@cs.ucla.edu
On Tue 15 Aug 2017, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>
>> I think CONTRIBUTE should mention, right after saying to run autogen.sh,
>> that the above requires Git to be installed.
>
> autogen.sh is not supposed to require Git, so let's fix autogen.sh instead.
>
>
>> 'build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg' -> '.git/hooks/commit-msg'
>> cp: cannot create regular file '.git/hooks/commit-msg': No such file or directory
>> ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1
>> #+end_src
>>
>> So it looks like it assumes that `.git/hooks' exists. I don't know why
>> that's not true in the GitLab checkout.
>
> I don't know why either. I wonder what other compatibility mines remain
> unexploded in the GitLab field? Anyway, I installed the attached, which should
> work around this particular problem without having to complicate the
> configuration instructions.
Is it possible that gitlab is using git worktrees, in which case .git in
the worktree is a regular file and not a directory ? See the DETAILS
section of the git-worktree manpage for an example.
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-16 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-01 1:19 Why does make run git? Richard Stallman
2017-08-01 3:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-01 14:30 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-01 14:49 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-02 17:26 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-02 17:43 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-03 19:43 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-03 20:02 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-02 17:56 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-02 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-02 18:42 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-02 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-02 20:04 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-12 16:11 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-15 14:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-08-15 15:52 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-15 16:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-08-15 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-15 20:39 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-16 12:30 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2017-08-16 12:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-08-16 12:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-08-16 14:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-08-01 3:14 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-02 17:25 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-01 15:10 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-01 15:15 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-08-01 16:01 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-02 17:30 ` Richard Stallman
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