X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/d36b0cf6645cec56523db1e793964fb2996e6d78..d312709c416944cab8e8e3ad09d47b69f9049931:/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn b/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn
index 1c3cd98cd..97c4cb93b 100644
--- a/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ should be in $SRCDIR then updating the instructions to something like
 
     REPOSITORY=~/wiki.git
     cd $SRCDIR
-    ikiwiki-makerepo git $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
+    ikiwiki-makerepo git $SCDIR $REPOSITORY
 
 might clear things up a little. Apologies if I'm being a bit dim, learning
 ikiwiki and git at same time :) 
@@ -32,37 +32,14 @@ n.b. svn version of command worked fine :)
 
 --Andy
 
-> Please show me a transcript of it not working. Here is a transcript of it
-> working just as the tutorial describes it to work:
-> 	
-> 	joey@kodama:~/tmp/work>ls
-> 	repo/  src/
-> 	joey@kodama:~/tmp/work>rm -rf repo src
-> 	joey@kodama:~/tmp/work>mkdir src
-> 	joey@kodama:~/tmp/work>echo hi > src/index.html
-> 	joey@kodama:~/tmp/work>ikiwiki-makerepo git src repo
-> 	Importing src into git
-> 	Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/joey/tmp/work/repo/
-> 	Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
-> 	Created initial commit 2254e46: initial commit
-> 	 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
-> 	 create mode 100644 .gitignore
-> 	 create mode 100644 index.html
-> 	updating 'refs/heads/master'
-> 	  from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
-> 	  to   2254e462e31429e755bae56939c4319be8bb912b
-> 	 Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
-> 	Generating pack...
-> 	Done counting 4 objects.
-> 	Deltifying 4 objects...
-> 	 100% (4/4) done
-> 	Writing 4 objects...
-> 	Unpacking 4 objects...
-> 	 100% (4/4) done
-> 	refs/heads/master: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 -> 2254e462e31429e755bae56939c4319be8bb912b
-> 	
-> 	Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
-> 	Directory src is now a clone of git repository /home/joey/tmp/work/repo
+>	Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/deploy/tmp/
+>	Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
+>	fatal: '/home/deploy/tmp/repo': unable to chdir or not a git archive
+
+Looks like your git does not support GIT_DIR being used with git-init. I
+see some mentions of changes in git's changelog for 1.5.3 that look
+relevant. I've changed ikiwiki-makerepo to use a method more portable to
+older versions of git. --[[Joey]]
 
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