git problems

[Roman Cheplyaka]

Works here as well. Could it be a bug in Ben's version of git?
FWIW, mine is 1.7.10.4, packaged by Debian.

Roman

* Tyson Whitehead <twhitehead at gmail.com> [2012-10-10 17:29:17-0400]
> On October 10, 2012 16:54:03 Ben Millwood wrote:
> > I just tried to clone a copy of the base repo to see if I could be of
> > any help, but it doesn't work for me:
> > 
> > [ben at euler ~/haskell/upstreams/emptydir]$ git clone
> > http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/base.git
> > Cloning into 'base'...
> > 
> > [ben at euler ~/haskell/upstreams/emptydir]$ ls -l
> > total 0
> 
> Perhaps someone has already fixed it, but it seems to be working for me.
> 
> $ git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/base.git
> Cloning into 'base'...
> $ ls base/
> aclocal.m4         base.cabal  codepages     config.sub    Control  Debug    
> Foreign.hs  include     LICENSE         NHC         Prelude.hs    Setup.hs  
> tests  Unsafe
> base.buildinfo.in  cbits       config.guess  configure.ac  Data     Foreign  GHC         
> install-sh  Makefile.nhc98  Numeric.hs  prologue.txt  System    Text
> 
> Might it also just be that your aren't getting a default branch checked out.
> 
> Is there a '.git' subdirectory?  Is there a bunch files under '.git/objects'?  
> What do you get if you switch into the directory and run 'git branch -r'?
> 
> $ cd base
> $ git branch -r
>   origin/HEAD -> origin/master
>   origin/encoding
>   origin/ghc-7.2
>   origin/ghc-7.4
>   origin/ghc-7.6
>   origin/imp-param-class
>   origin/master
>   origin/monad-comp
>   origin/new-typeable
> 
> Cheers!  -Tyson
> 
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