GHC Git checkout

[Simon Marlow]

On 02/02/2011 12:15, Max Bolingbroke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to checkout a Git repo for GHC today according to the
> instructions on
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsConversion/Building/GettingTheSources.

Those instructions are from the last conversion, but fortunately they 
aren't too wrong.

> Unfortunately, it fails at sync-all get with this error:
>
> """
> $ ./sync-all get
> warning: adding --partial, to override use --complete
> == running git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git ghc-tarballs
> Cloning into ghc-tarballs...
> fatal: http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git/info/refs not found:
> did you run git update-server-info on the server?
> git failed: 32768 at ./sync-all line 122.
> """

Yes, you need a couple of local modifications.  Change "packages.git" to 
"packages" in sync-all, and in the file packages, change the repo name 
for "ghc" to "ghc.git".

> It looks like the script should actually be downloading ghc-tarballs
> from http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-git/, not http://darcs.haskell.org/.
>
> I have verified that cloning the initial repository from
> http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-git/ghc.git/ instead means that the
> sync-all script does the Right Thing.

That was the previous experiment where I converted all the repos to git. 
  The current plan is to convert ghc only first of all, and convert the 
rest shortly afterwards.

> If this isn't meant to work yet, a note should probably be added to
> the Wiki page to that effect. If it is meant to work, it looks like
> something needs to be fixed: perhaps move/symlink to those repos out
> of the ghc-git subdirectory?

I'll push something shortly to get this working again.

Cheers,
	Simon