#645965 mr: Can't register local git repo

Package:
myrepos
Source:
myrepos
Submitter:
John Eikenberry
Date:
2019-11-12 07:33:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#645965#5
Date:
2011-10-20 00:08:57 UTC
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I was trying to register a git repo that exist only locally and received the
error.

mr: cannot determine git url

Its easy to reproduce, just create a new git repo...
$ mkdir tmp; cd tmp
$ git init
Try to register it with mr...
$ mr register
mr: cannot determine git url
$ echo $?
1

I have several other repos already registered with mr which all work fine.
Though they are all hg based (I'm switching to git though).
#645965#10
Date:
2011-10-20 00:40:30 UTC
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John Eikenberry wrote:

There is no origin url for the repository. mr register could configure it
with a dummy checkout command:

[tmp]
checkout = no url known for this repository

But then what if someone runs mr on a repository that has no origin url,
but does have some other remote url? It would be surprising for the above to
result, but mr can't go guessing about which other url to use in such a
case. So I think it's better that mr register not try to support your
case.
#645965#15
Date:
2011-10-20 18:02:09 UTC
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Joey Hess wrote:

I would have thought that with the connections to the VCS-Home project or just
in general this would be a more common setup. Having a repo with no remotes is
one of the nice things about DVCs. But no matter.

Is there any mr workaround to get it working with a local-only repo? Or is my
best option just adding a dummy url entry to my .git/config?
#645965#20
Date:
2011-10-20 19:53:52 UTC
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John Eikenberry wrote:

An empty stanza like I showed in .mrconfig will work fine, it's just
that I don't see a good way to mr register to guess you want that configuration.
#645965#25
Date:
2013-06-15 18:02:44 UTC
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Hi,

It is not just mrconfig files in local git repo but manually generated
ones and bootstrapped ones seems to suffer this problem of chain
loading.

This may be obvious for expert mr users but it is a bit non-obvious since
it require us to fool mr with the shell command ":" (or "true") for
update.  I suggest to add an entry as attached patch.

(Certainly, adding some special option to the "register" command
indicating it is a local mrconfig is another way to address this type of
issue.  But I like to keep mr as simple as possible like now.)

Osamu
#645965#30
Date:
2013-06-15 18:02:44 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

It is not just mrconfig files in local git repo but manually generated
ones and bootstrapped ones seems to suffer this problem of chain
loading.

This may be obvious for expert mr users but it is a bit non-obvious since
it require us to fool mr with the shell command ":" (or "true") for
update.  I suggest to add an entry as attached patch.

(Certainly, adding some special option to the "register" command
indicating it is a local mrconfig is another way to address this type of
issue.  But I like to keep mr as simple as possible like now.)

Osamu