[Bioc-devel] Error trying to update remotes

[Sean Davis]

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Martin Morgan <
martin.morgan at roswellpark.org> wrote:

> On 05/25/2017 05:29 PM, Greg Gloor wrote:
>
>> I have a question about updating my package using the git-svn approach. I
>> am on Mac El Capitan. I am using the git svn from git version 2.10.1 as
>> installed on the system (not home-brew, since this won't work for some
>> reason) and have updated the  update_remotes.sh script to point to the this
>> git version. with this git svn works fine
>>
>> This script ran fine earlier, but I had to remove and re-clone the
>> repository. Now when I run the shell script I get the error:
>>
>> fatal: remote bioc already exists
>>
>> I searched the archive and did not see anything like this for the current
>> git-svn approach
>>
>
> Y'all are always so secretive about your packages...
>
> Maybe you've already run the script? Probably you can edit the plain text
> file .git/config in your repository to remove the section that looks
> something like
>
> [remote "bioc"]
>         url = https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror/BiocFileCache.git
>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bioc/*
>

Or "git remote rm bioc", which will remove the "bioc" remote, accomplishing
the same thing as editing the .git/config file.

Sean



>
> good luck!
>
> Martin
>
>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Greg Gloor
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