From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>,
"W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git submodule update is not fail safe
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:51:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vzk0osjli.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50E74145.4020701@gmail.com> (Manlio Perillo's message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:53:25 +0100")
Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com> writes:
> $ git submodule update --init
> ...
> Submodule 'roms/vgabios' (git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git/) registered
> for path 'roms/vgabios'
> fatal: unable to connect to anongit.freedesktop.org:
> anongit.freedesktop.org[0: 131.252.210.161]: errno=Connection timed out
>
> Unable to fetch in submodule path 'pixman'
>
> $ git submodule update --init
> fatal: Needed a single revision
> Unable to find current revision in submodule path 'pixman'
>
> The problem is easy to solve: manually remove the pixman directory;
> however IMHO git submodule update should not fail this way since it may
> confuse the user.
Sounds like a reasonable observation. Jens, Heiko, comments?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-04 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-04 20:53 [BUG] git submodule update is not fail safe Manlio Perillo
2013-01-04 21:51 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-01-05 13:52 ` Manlio Perillo
2013-01-05 14:07 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-01-05 14:01 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-01-05 14:49 ` Manlio Perillo
2013-01-05 14:50 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-01-05 20:17 ` [PATCH] clone: support atomic operation with --separate-git-dir Jens Lehmann
2013-01-05 21:20 ` Manlio Perillo
2013-01-06 6:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-06 8:49 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-06 9:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-06 9:47 ` [PATCH] clone: forbid --bare --separate-git-dir <dir> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-01-06 10:19 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-06 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-07 1:18 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-07 2:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-08 14:16 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-08 17:15 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-01-08 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-08 23:34 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-08 23:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-11 3:09 ` [PATCH v2] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-01-11 3:15 ` Junio C Hamano
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