Comments on: Git remote branches

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:34:13 +0000

FYI that I was looking for basic information on git (googled “checking out git”), and you came up first! :)

Hope you are enjoying your summer thus far…

By: webmat

webmat — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:22:25 +0000

By the way, I can’t believe I didn’t suggest this long ago… Until the remote gem install is fixed, just clone the repo and install the gem from the rake task:

git clone git@github.com:webmat/git_remote_branch.git
cd git_remote_branch
rake gem:gem
sudo rake gem:install

This gem works perfectly fine, that’s the version I’m using :-)

By: webmat

webmat — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:14:14 +0000

@Brendan
Last time I checked, I seemed to have a new problem, in fact. It apparently had something to do with the usernames being prepended to the gem name. The bin file that’s actually generated by rubygems in the public bin directory did

...
gem 'webmat-git_remote_branch', version
load 'grb'

The load command failed.
This week-end I think I’ll just post the gem to Rubyforge. This will make it easier until we figure out what the deal is.

By: Brendan Baldwin

Brendan Baldwin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:51:04 +0000

I’m having this problem with github myself. It’s like every bin file gets re-chmod’d from 755 to 733 — perhaps there’s a bug in github’s gem builder? Does anyone know whats up?

By: webmat

webmat — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:07:33 +0000

Thanks for mentioning it Ryan.

In fact I had a sneaking suspicion that this may be the case. Maybe due to Git itself or to GitHub. Although from what I can see, Git seems to have a correct 755 mode for the file.

I’ve been extremely busy in the last few days and couldn’t spent any significant amount of time trying to get to the bottom of it. I should have time to nail this down towards the middle of next week.

I also have the RubyForge project approved so this should simplify the installation greatly by having g_r_b on the default gem server and this may help me avoid the problems with GitHub’s server (if it is due to it).

By: Ryan McGeary

Ryan McGeary — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:07:05 +0000

Webmat, I’ve had this issue happen on other github gems. I’m not sure if it’s a github or rubygems 1.2 issue, but I don’t think it’s your fault,

For example, I had this same permission issue happen to the defunkt-github gem.

By: webmat

webmat — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:03:07 +0000

Confirmed, it’s crapping out on my other machine… I’ll look at the rubygems’ doc to see if I must do something else than registering it in ‘executables’. You’d think that’s enough :-)

I’ll keep you posted!

By: Ryan McGeary

Ryan McGeary — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:48:39 +0000

Webmat, Yes, I ran into the problem on OSX 10.5.3 with RubyGems 1.2.0.

By: Micha

Micha — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:35:53 +0000

yup. for me, grb was not worl-readable, too.
rubygems 1.2.0 and leopards Ruby.framework
chmod’ing resolved the problem

By: Labnotes » Rounded Corners - 204 (Git Day)

Labnotes » Rounded Corners - 204 (Git Day) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:26:46 +0000

[...] demystified. If you haven’t figured out Git remote branches yet (raises hand in shame), check out GRB. A little command line utility for dealing specifically with GRB. Hopefully this will show up [...]

By: webmat

webmat — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:54:16 +0000

Hmmmm, that’s strange, was that on OS X? I think I installed the freakin’ gem 25 times over here.

But it’s my first gem, so maybe I made a n00b mistake somewhere along the way :-)

I’ll check it out.

By: Ryan McGeary

Ryan McGeary — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:31:48 +0000

Mathieu, Cool stuff, but after installing the gem, I get the following error when running grb:

$ grb -h
/opt/local/bin/grb:19:in `load’: no such file to load — grb (LoadError)

I’m not sure what went wrong, but the grb script in the gem’s bin directory was not world readable:

$ ls -l /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/webmat-git_remote_branch-0.2.2/bin
total 8
-rwx-wx-wx 1 root admin 446 Jun 23 17:17 grb

Chmod’ing it to be world readable fixed the problem

$ sudo chmod 777 /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/webmat-git_remote_branch-0.2.2/bin/grb