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cmd/dist: fails w/o .git or VERSION with no actionable error message #9932

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proppy opened this issue Feb 19, 2015 · 1 comment
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cmd/dist: fails w/o .git or VERSION with no actionable error message #9932

proppy opened this issue Feb 19, 2015 · 1 comment
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proppy commented Feb 19, 2015

Building a tarball snapshot fails with the following error, because the source tree is not a git repo:

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##### Building compilers and Go bootstrap tool for host, darwin/amd64.
++ buildall=-a
++ '[' --no-banner = --no-clean ']'
++ ./cmd/dist/dist bootstrap -a -v
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

go tool dist: FAILED: git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

An "easy" workaround is to create a VERSIONfile, it would be nice if the error message was pointing that out.
@bradfitz bradfitz added this to the Go1.5Maybe milestone Feb 19, 2015
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Yeah, a nicer error message would be good there.

/cc @adg

@adg adg closed this as completed in 5f84238 Feb 19, 2015
@mikioh mikioh changed the title cmd/dist fails w/o .git or VERSION with no actionable error message cmd/dist: fails w/o .git or VERSION with no actionable error message Feb 20, 2015
@mikioh mikioh modified the milestones: Go1.5Maybe, Go1.5 Feb 24, 2015
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