[rancid] Rancid 3.1.99 Alpha git integration issues.

[Thomas Greer]

That's the highest available is centos standard. I can have a look and see



> On 11 Mar 2015, at 21:42, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> 
> Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 01:01:25PM +0000, Thomas Greer:
>>>>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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
> 
> I'm not certain why this error occurs; it occurs with git 1.7, but not git
> 2.3.  Is it reasonable to just upgrade your installation of git?