Cloning

[Artem Pelenitsyn]

Actually, I forgot to pull:

git remote add tdammers git at gitlab.haskell.org:tdammers/ghc.git
> git pull tdammers
git checkout tdammers some-branch

And to post changes to, say, GHC's main repo:

git push origin some-branch

-- Artem

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 12:04, Artem Pelenitsyn <a.pelenitsyn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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