Cloning

[Artem Pelenitsyn]

Dear Simon,

In order for submodules to work, you still have to jump through the main
repo. That is,

git clone --recursive https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc tdammers
cd tdammers
git remote add tdammers git at gitlab.haskell.org:tdammers/ghc.git
git checkout tdammers some-branch

Dear ghc-devs,
More generally, I'm actually wondering, why GHC's .gitsubmodules use
relative paths.  Why not make them absolute?

--
Best wishes,
Artem

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 11:52, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <
ghc-devs at haskell.org> wrote:

> What is the right procedure for cloning from someone else’s repo.
>
> For example, I wanted to see what was going wrong for Tobias in #16615, so
> after some detective work I tried
>
> git clone --recursive git at gitlab.haskell.org:tdammers/ghc.git tdammers
>
> but I got lots of errors:
>
> Cloning into '/home/simonpj/code/tdammers/libffi-tarballs'...
>
> setsockopt IPV6_TCLASS 8: Operation not permitted:
>
> > GitLab: The project you were looking for could not be found.
>
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
>
>
>
> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
>
> and the repository exists.
>
> fatal: clone of 'git at gitlab.haskell.org:tdammers/libffi-tarballs.git'
> into submodule path '/home/simonpj/code/tdammers/libffi-tarballs' failed
>
> Failed to clone 'libffi-tarballs'. Retry scheduled
>
> Cloning into '/home/simonpj/code/tdammers/libraries/Cabal'...
>
> setsockopt IPV6_TCLASS 8: Operation not permitted:
>
> > GitLab: The project you were looking for could not be found.
>
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
>
>
>
> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
>
> and the repository exists.
>
> fatal: clone of 'git at gitlab.haskell.org:tdammers/packages/Cabal.git' into
> submodule path
>
> etc etc.
>
> So:
>
>    - What is a reliable way to get a MR onto my machine to test?
>    - If I make a fix, what is the workflow to push that fix back to the
>    author -- presumably I can’t push to their repo?
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
>
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