Re: rebasing topic/libposix

[Eric Blake]

On 05/06/2011 11:02 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:07:22AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
>> I have forgotten why GIT tends to hang up without telling you why:
>>
>>> $ git push
>>> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>>
>> so I haven't pushed the 180 commit merge.....
> 
> If memory serves that happens when you make a read-only checkout,
> i.e. with a git:// url or otherwise without using your savannah
> account name over ssh://, and then try to push a change back.
> 
> There is same magic to tell git that the origin has moved to a
> new (i.e. ssh://) url if you are prepared to backup, google a bit,
> experiment a little, and swear a lot...

git remote set-url --push origin address@hidden/srv/git/gnulib.git

Or hand-edit .git/config for the same effect.

> 
> Whenever I've done that I always `git format-patch` from the read-
> only tree, checkout out a fresh working copy, and then apply the
> stack of patches from the broken checkout.

Yeah, that works too :)

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