clone: Allow cloning a repo that doesn't have a parent (a personal "blessed" repo)

[mihails-strasuns-sociomantic]

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/git-hub", line 1534, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/git-hub", line 1528, in main
    args.run(parser, args)
  File "/usr/bin/git-hub", line 616, in run
    repo_url = repo['parent'][config.urltype]
KeyError: 'parent'

Problem is that own repo is not a fork and thus can't have upstream/parent

[leandro-lucarella-sociomantic]

Could you add the clone invocation you used for completeness?

[leandro-lucarella-sociomantic]

Also, what would you expect in this situation? To succeed and set your own repo as upstream? To fail with a better error message? I don't think having no upstream makes sense, because most of the commands use it, so git hub wouldn't be very useful in that case.

[mihails-strasuns-sociomantic]

Will having both origin and upstream same work? I'd love to keep git hub functionality of listing pulls and issues, as well as shorter URL typing via owner/repo even if it is my personal project / repository.

[leandro-lucarella-sociomantic]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:17:46AM -0700, mihails-strasuns-sociomantic wrote:

Will having both origin and upstream same work? I'd love to keep
git hub functionality of listing pulls and issues, as well as
shorter URL typing via owner/repo even if it is my personal project
/ repository.

There is no "origin", I'm refering to the hub.upstream variable. I'm
not sure it will just work if you use your fork as hub.upstream out of
the box, but you are welcome to investigate :)

[mihails-strasuns-sociomantic]

but you are welcome to investigate :)

OK, will be one my TODO list.

[leandro-lucarella-sociomantic]

I'll rephrase the issue as a feature request then

[jwilk]

For completeness, this is the invocation that failed for me:

$ git hub clone jwilk/didjvu
Forking jwilk/didjvu to jwilk/didjvu
Cloning [email protected]:jwilk/didjvu.git to didjvu
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/git-hub", line 2003, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/git-hub", line 1997, in main
    args.run(parser, args)
  File "/usr/bin/git-hub", line 614, in check_config_and_run
    cmd.run(parser, args)
  File "/usr/bin/git-hub", line 799, in run
    remote_url = repo['parent'][config.urltype]
KeyError: 'parent'

OTOH cloning your own repo works if you omit the "owner/" part:

$ git hub clone didjvu
Warning: Repository jwilk/didjvu is not a fork, just clonning, upstream will not be set
Cloning [email protected]:jwilk/didjvu.git to didjvu

The latter doesn't set hub.upstream, even though it probably wouldn't hurt if it did.