Re: Setting up external on GitHub

Hi John,

2014-07-04 15:28 GMT+02:00 John Huebner <johnhuebner_at_site-seeker.com>:

> I've tried the remote path both with and without /trunk, I get the same
> error. The only thing that works on the local path is trunk/name-of-repo
>
> I can update my local copy of the repo and the external. The error happens
> when I attempt to commit the update that includes the external.
>
> There are only 2 choices for the URL as far as I know 1)
> https://github.com/user/repo-name 2)
> https://github.com/user/repo-name/trunk
>
>
> I never tried GIT externals in SVN, so I don't know if they are supposed
to work and I'm afraid I can't help you any further. If I understand it
correctly, Git wraps everything up so that it is SVN compatible.

Since the error happens, when you try to commit, the next thing that comes
to mind is:
* Do you have write access to the git repository?
* Does this GIT->SVN Wrapper allow write access at all or is it always
read-only?

Cheers
- Lübbe

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