Re: git subtree error (just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?)

gree...@obbligato.org writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >>> With one positional option, git-subtree add simply assumes >>> it's a refspec. Is there an easy way to check whether a string is a >>> proper refspec? Even better would be a way to check if a string is a >>> path to a git repository.

Re: git subtree error (just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?)

Junio C Hamano writes: >> With one positional option, git-subtree add simply assumes >> it's a refspec. Is there an easy way to check whether a string is a >> proper refspec? Even better would be a way to check if a string is a >> path to a git repository. > > Do you literally mean "a path to a

Re: git subtree error (just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?)

gree...@obbligato.org writes: > git-subtree add accepts either a refspec or a path to a repository and a > refspec. > With one positional option, git-subtree add simply assumes > it's a refspec. Is there an easy way to check whether a string is a > proper refspec? Even better would be a way to

Re: git subtree error (just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?)

Drew Crawford writes: > Ideally it would be better to emit an error-message from a script > higher up the calling chain that would be more descriptive about the > problem (such as suggesting no branch is specified).-- Ok, I used git rev-parse --verify and I have this working now. Will send to J

Re: git subtree error (just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?)

Drew Crawford writes: > Ideally it would be better to emit an error-message from a script > higher up the calling chain that would be more descriptive about the > problem (such as suggesting no branch is specified).-- I'm looking at implementing this but I need a bit of help from the git experts

Re: git subtree error (just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?)

Drew Crawford writes: > I noticed today that if you leave off the branch name from git subtree like > so: > > $ git subtree add --prefix somewhere -m "adding CDH as subtree" path/to/repo > warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is deprecated; use > --empty > fatal: just how do

git subtree error (just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?)

I noticed today that if you leave off the branch name from git subtree like so: $ git subtree add --prefix somewhere -m "adding CDH as subtree" path/to/repo warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is deprecated; use --empty fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees? The