git@vger.kernel.org mailing list mirror (one of many)
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Git for human beings <git-users@googlegroups.com>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How de-duplicate similar repositories with alternates
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:30:22 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4lbsejld.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvjtvah0.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:43:07 +0100")

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> I think a warning (or even error) like this would be more useful:
>
>     test ! -d $objdir && error... # current behavior
>     test -d $objdir/objects && error "Did you mean $objdir/objects, silly?" # new error

If it is an error common enough, perhaps we could even DWIM it, I
guess, that is...

	if test ! -d $objdir
	then
		error
	elif test -d $objdir/objects/pack
	then
		possibly warn
		objdir=$objdir/objects
	fi

> I.e. I suspect I'm not the only one who's not read the documentation
> carefully enough and thought it was a path to the root of the repo and
> wondered why it silently didn't work.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-05  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-29 14:59 How de-duplicate similar repositories with alternates Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-29 16:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-29 18:55 ` Stefan Beller
2018-11-29 20:10   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-29 20:43     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-04  7:06   ` Jeff King
2018-12-04 12:07     ` Derrick Stolee
2018-12-04  6:59 ` Jeff King
2018-12-04 10:43   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-12-04 13:27     ` [PATCH 0/3] sha1-file: warn if alternate is a git repo (not object dir) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-12-04 13:27     ` [PATCH 1/3] sha1-file: test the error behavior of alt_odb_usable() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-28 20:04       ` [PATCH v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-29 13:46         ` Jeff King
2019-03-29 13:55           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-08 15:57             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-09  8:21               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-09  8:45                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-09  9:43                   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-09 14:14                     ` Jeff King
2019-04-09  8:29               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-04 13:27     ` [PATCH 2/3] sha1-file: emit error if an alternate looks like a repository Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-12-05  3:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-05  6:10         ` Jeff King
2018-12-04 13:27     ` [PATCH 3/3] sha1-file: change alternate "error:" message to "warning:" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-12-05  3:37       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-05  5:54         ` Jeff King
2018-12-05  3:30     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-12-04 13:35 ` How de-duplicate similar repositories with alternates Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-12-04 14:17   ` Derrick Stolee

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=xmqq4lbsejld.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com \
    --to=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=avarab@gmail.com \
    --cc=christian.couder@gmail.com \
    --cc=git-users@googlegroups.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=peff@peff.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).