Re: GIT errors?

[John Mandereau]

Le mercredi 03 janvier 2007 à 00:10 -0600, Daniel Tonda Castillo a
écrit :
> After finishing the priority 3 files which already have been sent, I 
> tried to do a pull to merge everything and get the newest web site.
> 
> Locally there were no errors when committing, this seems to have 
> happened after putting a different committish after the first commit.
> 
> After a bunch of errors concerning merge, I thought to start over again 
> in a new directory, just to keep the original files I translated intact.
> 
> So i went to the savanah place listed on the wiki at: 
> http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Translations_HOWTO to 
> start translating and get a fresh source. I got too many errors and gave 
> up.
> 
> Here's a recap of what went on:
> =========================================
> Following instructions here:
> 
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=web/master
> 
> $ git fetch git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git/ web/master:web/master
> 
> I do a ls -a and all I get is:
> 
> $ .
> $ ..
> $ .git
> 
> Shouldn't something live here besides .git?

No, "git checkout -b myweb web/master" is supposed to do this job.

> Now the next item:
> 
> 
> $ git checkout -b myweb web/master
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the 
> working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
> fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD
> 
> 
> $ git log
> fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'
> 
> So I'm stopping all git stuff because the instructions seem to be incorrect.
> ========================================

Are you sure that you actually use Git 1.4.4.1 or newer? What does

        git --version

says?


I see no other reason for saying instructions are incorrect: I have
actually tested these instructions under GNU/Linux, with Git 1.4.4.2.
Do a Git expert knows why this doesn't work?

Darn, at second thought, Cogito seems to be easier to use, despite
limited portability :-/ If there is no other clean way to get you
started, you may simply fal back to Cogito...

-- 
John Mandereau <address@hidden>