[rancid] Rancid 3.1.99 Alpha git integration issues.

[Thomas Greer]

> On 8 Feb 2015, at 07:37, Thomas Greer <tgreer at tsone.net.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 8 Feb 2015, at 06:22, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 01:31:54PM +0000, Thomas Greer:
>>> Hi All
>>> 
>>> I’ve recently (read today) installed the above alpha in anticipation of the git support. I’ve setup rancid a few times before, but I’m struggling with the git stuff.
>>> 
>>> When I run rancid-cvs after a fresh install, I get a load of errors.
>>> 
>>> -bash-4.1$ ./bin/rancid-cvs
>>> error: Malformed value for push.default: simple
>>> error: Must be one of nothing, matching, tracking or current.
>>> fatal: bad config file line 6 in /usr/local/rancid//.gitconfig
>>> error: Malformed value for push.default: simple
>>> error: Must be one of nothing, matching, tracking or current.
>>> fatal: bad config file line 6 in /usr/local/rancid//.gitconfig
>> 
>> entirely possible that i've screwed-up the git support; i'll have to re-test
>> it.  but, this error is odd.  rancid-cvs doesnt create .gitconfig itself.
>> so, what is the source of that file and thus this error?
>> 
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> error: Malformed value for push.default: simple
>>> error: Must be one of nothing, matching, tracking or current.
>>> fatal: bad config file line 6 in /usr/local/rancid//.gitconfig
>>> error: Malformed value for push.default: simple
>>> error: Must be one of nothing, matching, tracking or current.
>>> fatal: bad config file line 6 in /usr/local/rancid//.gitconfig
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> error: Malformed value for push.default: simple
>>> error: Must be one of nothing, matching, tracking or current.
>>> fatal: bad config file line 6 in /usr/local/rancid//.gitconfig
>>> error: Malformed value for push.default: simple
>>> error: Must be one of nothing, matching, tracking or current.
>>> fatal: bad config file line 6 in /usr/local/rancid//.gitconfig
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>> 
>>> My rancid.conf contains:
>>> 
>>> # Select which RCS system to use, "cvs" (default), "svn" or "git".  Do not
>>> # change this after CVSROOT has been created with rancid-cvs.  Changing between
>>> # these requires manual conversions.
>>> RCSSYS=git; export RCSSYS
>>> 
>>> The README and UPGRADING mention nothing specific to initialising git other than to run rancid-cvs.
>>> 
>>> Running on Centos 6.6
>>> git version 1.7.1
>>> 
>>> Any help would be appreciated with this.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Thomas
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> Either make install, or rancid-cvs. I rm’d the /usr/local/rancid directory before running make install
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Any further info or progress on this? :)