RE: Cloning

Thanks. I think I understand. The model is * Always start from a clone of the main repo; do not attempt to clone anyone else’s * Add the extra repo as a remote * Check out a branch from it. I had not previously understood that -- thanks S From: Artem Pelenitsyn Sent: 25 June 2019 10:11 To: Simon Peyton Jones Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: Re: Cloning Actually, I forgot to pull: git remote add tdammers git@gitlab.haskell.org:tdammers/ghc.gitmailto:git@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 mailto:a.pelenitsyn@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/ghchttps://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.haskell.org%2Fghc%2Fghc&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C52fa9c0222914fd9d33608d6f94d006e%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636970506449242123&sdata=b7df1dvmZW%2FRxJow7tiVYtFxopJkrk6AKad0aD%2Bsmwo%3D&reserved=0 tdammers cd tdammers git remote add tdammers git@gitlab.haskell.org:tdammers/ghc.gitmailto:git@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 mailto:ghc-devs@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@gitlab.haskell.org:tdammers/ghc.gitmailto:git@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@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@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 _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.orgmailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devshttps://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.haskell.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fghc-devs&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C52fa9c0222914fd9d33608d6f94d006e%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636970506449252119&sdata=Xm6rW0Ehl7R9lSSghWDc%2BzQOPKmeI4n92eMugmgcZbg%3D&reserved=0