Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git-to-cvs for coreutils

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:57:42PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:21:58PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:39:19PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> > Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > ...
> >> > > Or, you can volunteer
> >> > > for keeping on eye on this program and upgrade it on a regular basis,
> >> > > and document its existence in the infra/git.txt documentation :)
> >> >
> >> > That's a good compromise.
> >> > I've just added comments to that effect in that file.
> >>
> >> Good.
> >
> > I installed git v1.4.4.1 manually with going through Debian
> > packaging. It lies in /usr/local/ (instead of /usr).
> >
> > Can you check whether it works correctly for your hook script, and
> > then remove /usr/bin/git-cvsexportcommit?
> >
> > Thanks,
> 
> Sure.  I'll try it right now, since I happen to have some changes
> I can push...
> 
> Whoops.  I can't push at all:  No /usr/bin/git-shell
> 
>   $ git-push sv
>   Failed to exec /usr/bin/git-shell: No such file or directory at 
> /usr/local/bin/sv_membersh line 135.
>   fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>   [Exit 128]
> 
> So I temporarily changed /usr/local/bin/sv_membersh to invoke
> /usr/local/bin/git-shell instead, then ran my test.
> Then I changed it back (to the non-working state).

Ugh, I didn't remember that one.  Since the PATH is set by
sv_membersh, it's safe not to specify the path, and so I did.

I also add to use /usr/bin/env so as not to rely on hardcoded path in
the xinetd configuration ;)

> My test showed that the /usr/local/bin tools do work properly.

Cool, I removed /usr/bin/git-cvsexportcommit

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Sylvain