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Clone not really a clone. [message #1751505]

Tue, 10 January 2017 22:05

bj cagnina

Messages: 3
Registered: January 2017

Junior Member

Using org.eclipse.jgit:org.eclipse.jgit:4.5.0.201609210915-r

First, I am cloning a repo like the following:

Git.cloneRepository()
.setURI("ssh://myrepo.git")
.setDirectory("/tmp/")
.setTransportConfigCallback(transport -> {
SshTransport sshTransport = (SshTransport) transport;
sshTransport.setSshSessionFactory(sshSessionFactory);
})
.setCloneAllBranches(true)
.call();

Then I enter the directory and perform (in command prompt), `git checkout pre-existing_branch_that_is_upstream` and get the following error:

error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
my_folder/my_file.json
Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
Aborting

How can my branch be behind if it was a fresh clone? For sanity, If I clone the repo with git, everything is fine.

What exactly is JGit doing?

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Re: Clone not really a clone. [message #1751625 is a reply to message #1751505]

Thu, 12 January 2017 01:00

Matthias Sohn

Messages: 1268
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

What's the output of git status after cloning with jgit ?

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Re: Clone not really a clone. [message #1751634 is a reply to message #1751625]

Thu, 12 January 2017 07:05

Ed Merks

Messages: 33137
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

I'm not an expert, but .setDirectory("/tmp/") looks suspicious to me. This folder is likely not empty so who knows what files are all there? Perhaps there are files from previous attempts to clone. Better would be to point at some directory location you know is empty.

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