Inconsistent revision control

[David Holmes]

On 27/06/2023 7:40 am, Alan Snyder wrote:
> No, I meant incremental clone.

What is an incremental clone?

> After updating the directory, I tried to do an incremental build and got the strange message.

So you did mean "incremental build".

> After that, I tried doing a full build, reconfiguring, etc., but nothing helped.
> 
> Now that you know that a build tool is involved, can you help me figure out what the problem is?

I think Erik already addressed that.

David


>> On Jun 26, 2023, at 2:32 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 26/06/2023 10:55 pm, Alan Snyder wrote:
>>> It would be very unlikely for CCC to fail to correctly clone the directory.
>>> It would be helpful to know what the build tool is complaining about with that message.
>>
>> Wasn't apparent any build tool was involved. You stated:
>>
>>> After an incremental clone of the directory tree, I get mysterious messages like this:
>>
>> I presume you actually meant "incremental build".
>>
>> David
>>
>>>> On Jun 25, 2023, at 10:04 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 24/06/2023 12:28 pm, Alan Snyder wrote:
>>>>> I have been trying to use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a copy of an active jdk repo on another macOS machine for the purpose of running tests.
>>>>> The initial clone is fine.
>>>>> After an incremental clone of the directory tree, I get mysterious messages like this:
>>>>> Inconsistent revision control: 17-24-55/ is missing .git directory
>>>>> What is this about?
>>>>> Is there an easy way to fix this problem?
>>>>
>>>> This isn't really a build issue. I can only suggest that you check that the copy you made actually copied across all hidden directories, e.g. .git, as well.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> David
>>>>
>>
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