From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.oregonstate.edu (smtp1.oregonstate.edu [128.193.15.35]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29B410ACE for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:34:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.oregonstate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86D463C3CB for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:06:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at oregonstate.edu Received: from smtp1.oregonstate.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.oregonstate.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id e9WDJUu70UIA for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from babel.blindlinux.com (sub17-6.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.17.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp1.oregonstate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E413C2CF for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zkline by babel.blindlinux.com with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K7Hqb-0002LK-V7 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:34:17 -0700 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:34:17 -0700 From: Zachary Kline To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: git-clone problem Message-ID: <20080613223417.GA8994@babel.blindlinux.com> References: <009501c8c812$36e9fd10$4ba65c90@vv507j> <20080613061224.GA15628@babel.blindlinux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:34:20 -0000 On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 06:15:44PM -0400, luke wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Zachary Kline wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:47:48AM -0400, luke wrote: > > > git-pull git://hubbs.homedns.org/speakup.git > > > fatal: Not a git repository > > > Failed to find a valid git directory. > > This is because you're using git-pull. Git-pull is for updating an > > already-cloned repository. > > It *was* an already cloned repository. > > > You want instead: > > git-clone git://hubbs.homedns.org/speakup.git. > > Even though I had already done that on Wednesday? I was trying to update > my local copy of the repository. My understanding was that this was the > proper method, as you also seem to indicate above, although my knowledge > of git is quite limited, and so it may be that you mean something else. > > So, on Wednesday I ran "git-clone git://hubbs.homedns.org/speakup.git": > what do I do in order to cause my local version to pickup any changes, if > git-pull is the wrong utility? You want to cd into the directory created by that initial git-clone. It's called speakup. Then just do a git-pull, without any arguments. The git repository to use is already encoded in the directory and files in it, no need to do anything else. It'll update to the latest code. Hope this helps, Zack.