[petsc-dev] so Bitbucket and git suck once again

[Barry Smith]

  Patrick,

    Could you please give us read access to your repository so we can fetch it? 

   Thanks

     Barry

  git fetch git at bitbucket.org:psanan/petsc psanan/ksp-fcg:psanan/ksp-fcg
conq: repository does not exist.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.



On Sep 11, 2014, at 7:05 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
>>  Jed
>> 
>>  So, I am in my PETSc repository and want to try out Patrick Sanan’s FCG since it is cool and we ignored it too long and need to get it into the repository. He’s made a nice pull request; great. So I do 
>> 
>> ~/Src/petsc  master $ git checkout psanan/ksp-fcg
>> error: pathspec 'psanan/ksp-fcg' did not match any file(s) known to git.
> 
> The branch is in his repository, not ours.  Bitbucket has a major
> pull-request permissions problem in that he can make a PR to our
> repository without giving us read access to his repository.  This sounds
> crazy and it is.  Supposedly we would be able to merge using the web
> interface (if not for merge conflicts), but we can't even read the
> commits on the web:
> 
>  https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/pull-request/197/kspfcg/commits
> 
> 
> If we had read access to his repository, I would run:
> 
>  git fetch git at bitbucket.org:psanan/petsc psanan/ksp-fcg:psanan/ksp-fcg
> 
> to create a local branch in my repository named psanan/ksp-fcg.  I would
> then
> 
>  git checkout psanan/ksp-fcg
>  ... browse, run tests, etc
>  git push -u origin psanan/ksp-fcg
> 
> and merge if it looks good.
> 
>> Then I fucking give up. 
>> 
>> Why doesn’t bitbucket produce useful information to get his branch without being a git guru? It should show the exact magical git incantation to pull his branch. 
>> 
>> 1) How do I pull his branch into my repository
>> 2) How do I know in the future when I want to do this again, how to pull his branch in when my long term memory is shot? 
> 
> Bitbucket is seriously dropping the ball on this interface.  GitHub
> email notifications include the command to pull (merging into the
> current branch, so not quite what we want) and have solved the
> permissions problem.  They also makes the PR branches available under
> refs/pull/*, so that you can get them without using the URL for the
> contributor's repo.
> 
> 
> 
> Patrick, you have write access to the PETSc repository.  Can you just
> push your branches there instead of your personal repo when creating a
> PR?