Reiner Herrmann writes ("Bug#858054: dgit: clone not working with custom git
templatedir"):
> Package: dgit
> Version: 3.10
...
> I wanted to checkout the source of a Debian package with "dgit clone",
> but it was no longer successful (I know that it was working in the past):
>
> $ dgit clone hello
> canonical suite name for unstable is sid
> starting new git history
> downloading
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian//pool/main/h/hello/hello_2.10-1.dsc...
> last upload to archive: NO git hash
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
> Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
> 100 708k 100 708k 0 0 1672k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1675k
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
> Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
> 100 6072 100 6072 0 0 67403 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 67466
> No such file or directory at /usr/bin/dgit line 3366.
> $ ls -a
> . .. hello_2.10-1.debian.tar.xz hello_2.10.orig.tar.gz
>
> I then tried it without a custom ~/.gitconfig and noticed that it
> was working again. After checking each section I found that the
> init.templateDir setting is responsible for this issue. I have a
> templatedir configured to copy some custom hooks into new
> repositories.
>
> dgit(1) doesn't mention anything that a custom templateDir is not supported.
Do you know what hooks are the problem ? What do your hooks do ?
I don't think that a custom templateDir is necessarily completely
unsupported. But obviously in principle a hook might do any crazy
thing.
Looking at the error message, I think it is more likely that the
problem is a bug which I noticed recently, which might cause things to
break if you disable some but not all of the *.setup-* things, or
might be exposed by a different version of git.
If so the attached patch might help.
Ian.
commit d985273c2fa4d327f07b09c5be53f3989caa289c
Author: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Mar 10 17:43:57 2017 +0000
dgit: mkdir .git/info in setup_gitattrs
This might be necessary if setup_mergechangelogs were disabled.
(This is something of a latent bug, since `git init' creates
.git/info.)
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 79f79cff..721fb089 100755
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -3341,6 +3341,7 @@ END
return;
}
my $af = ".git/info/attributes";
+ ensuredir '.git/info';
open GAO, "> $af.new" or die $!;
print GAO <<END or die $!;
* dgit-defuse-attrs
