[mythtv-users] git pull not working

[Rick]

On 03/07/2013 8:57 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 06:07 PM, Rick wrote:
>> I've got 4 computers running mythtv.  git pull and git clone have
>> stopped working on 2 of them.  They just sit there doing nothing.
>> Other git commands work.  Anyone else seeing this or have any kind of
>> cure? The other 2 computers work fine and have identical installations.
>
> Easiest solution is to tar up one of the working repos and then use it
> to replace the broken ones.  There are lots of things you can do when
> your git repo gets broken, but often fixing it is more trouble than it's
> worth--since every repo is an equivalent copy of every other (barring
> local changes).  So, IMHO, rather than spending time trying to fix it,
> it makes more sense to export any changes you may have in it and then
> just use one that works.
>
> And, for that matter, you could easily just have a bare git repo that
> pulls from MythTV's github on one system on your network, then have all
> 4 of your "working" repos pull from that one--at which point you get
> full local-network speed in the event you want to start over with a git
> clone (so you don' t have to do a tar/untar type approach).  This also
> has the benefit that each of your 4 computers would pull the exact same
> revision of MythTV, so you'd never have any problems with in-progress
> changes or incompatible changes across different hosts.
>
> That said, if you're really bent on fixing the extra copies of the repo,
> I'm sure someone out there can suggest some things to do.
>
> Mike

Sounds like the way to go for me, thanks.  My brain hurts from searching 
google.

rick