Re: New Git v2.0.4 build to test

[Robert Bu <robert_bu@realsil.com.cn>]

Adam Dinwoodie wrote on 2014/8/11 5:24:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 11:07:54AM +0800, Robert Bu wrote:
>> Adam Dinwoodie wrote on 2014/8/6 18:21:
>>> I'm in the long-running process of producing an up-to-date build of Git
>>> for Cygwin.  I think I'm now (finally) close to having a build ready to
>>> upload to be installed via the Cygwin setup programs, but in the
>>> meantime I'd appreciate my new build getting some additional testing.
>>
>> I tried your git with repo.
>> RS-I9E3U8R4:[~/repo/test]> repo --version
>> repo version r1.2.7
>>         (from ssh://repo.realtek.com:29418/repo.git)
>> repo launcher version 1.22
>>         (from /cygdrive/d/cygwin/home/robert_bu/bin/repo)
>> git version 2.0.4
>> Python 2.7.8 (default, Jul 25 2014, 14:04:36)
>> [GCC 4.8.3]
>>
>> When I tried to initialize the repo, I got some error:
>>  From ssh://repo.xxx.com:29418/test/manifest
>>   * [new branch]      master     -> origin/master
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> <snip>
>>    File "/cygdrive/d/repo/test/.repo/repo/project.py", line 2205, in
>> _ReferenceGitDir
>>      os.symlink(os.path.relpath(src, os.path.dirname(dst)), dst)
>> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>>
>> My Cygwin environment:
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 RS-I9E3U8R4 1.7.31(0.272/5/3) 2014-07-25 11:26 x86_64 Cygwin
>>
>> Do you have any idea?
>
> Not really.  I don't even know what "repo" is, for a start, let alone
> how it interacts with Git and/or Cygwin.  It looks like a third-party
> tool, but that's all I can tell.
"repo" is a tool from Google to manage the source of Android.

>
> If you can tell me what the values of `src` and `dst` are when you hit
> that error, that could give me a pointer as to what's going on.  Maybe
> repo has a debugging mode; if not you'll probably be able to just edit
> `project.py` to add some extra logging.
>
> I take it this previously worked with the version of Git you got from
> the regular Cygwin installers?  Did you uninstall those before you
> installed my builds?
>
> My initial suspicion is that this is either a difference between Git
> v1.7.9 and v2.0.4 -- there're a lot of differences between those two
> versions -- or possibly a missing package since my build is based off
> Yaakov's Cygwin Ports version, which split out git-cvs, git-debuginfo,
> git-email and gitweb.
I suspect that this problem is with the symlink handling of Cygwin, not 
git itself.

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