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To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] nmbug: Add an 'init' command
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On Sun, Jul 06 2014, W. Trevor King wrote:
> For folks that want to start versioning a new tag-space, instead of
> cloning one that someone else has already started.

I tried this patch, and it (appeared) to work for me. Given that the
procedure for creating a new tag repository is arcane, could this patch
(or a version of it) be pushed?

> The empty-blob hash-object call avoids errors like:
>
>   $ nmbug commit
>   error: invalid object 100644 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 for 'tags/...'
>   fatal: git-write-tree: error building trees
>   'git HASH(0x9ef3eb8) write-tree' exited with nonzero value
> ---
>  devel/nmbug/nmbug | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/devel/nmbug/nmbug b/devel/nmbug/nmbug
> index c9ac046..b64dab9 100755
> --- a/devel/nmbug/nmbug
> +++ b/devel/nmbug/nmbug
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ my %command = (
>  	     commit	=> \&do_commit,
>  	     fetch	=> \&do_fetch,
>  	     help	=> \&do_help,
> +	     init	=> \&do_init,
>  	     log	=> \&do_log,
>  	     merge	=> \&do_merge,
>  	     pull	=> \&do_pull,
> @@ -152,6 +153,18 @@ sub do_clone {
>    git ('config', 'core.bare', 'true');
>  }
>  
> +sub do_init {
> +  my $tempwork = tempdir ('/tmp/nmbug-init.XXXXXX', CLEANUP => 1);
> +  system ('git', 'init', '--separate-git-dir', $NMBGIT, $tempwork) == 0
> +    or die "'git init' exited with nonzero value\n";
> +  git ('config', '--unset', 'core.worktree');
> +  git ('config', 'core.bare', 'true');
> +  # create an empty blob (e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391)
> +  git ('hash-object', '-w', '--stdin');
> +  git ( { GIT_WORK_TREE => $tempwork }, 'commit', '--allow-empty',
> +        '-m', 'Start a new nmbug repository' );
> +}
> +
>  sub is_committed {
>    my $status = shift;
>    return scalar (@{$status->{added}} ) + scalar (@{$status->{deleted}} ) == 0;
> @@ -610,6 +623,12 @@ Create a local nmbug repository from a remote source.  This wraps
>  C<git clone>, adding some options to avoid creating a working tree
>  while preserving remote-tracking branches and upstreams.
>  
> +=item B<init>
> +
> +Create a local nmbug repository from scratch.  This wraps C<git init>
> +and performs other setup to support subsequent status and commit
> +commands.
> +
>  =item B<checkout>
>  
>  Update the notmuch database from git. This is mainly useful to discard
> -- 
> 1.9.1.353.gc66d89d