Could not execute clone: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/mcatanzaro/Projects/fedora-scm/eog/.git/info/exclude'

$ fedpkg clone eog
Cloning into 'eog'...
remote: Counting objects: 2048, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1594/1594), done.
remote: Total 2048 (delta 787), reused 1036 (delta 349)
Receiving objects: 100% (2048/2048), 253.53 KiB | 2.33 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (787/787), done.
Could not execute clone: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'/home/mcatanzaro/Projects/fedora-scm/eog/.git/info/exclude'

The clone actually succeeds. I've been seeing this error for weeks now. 
What's going on?

[Lubomír Sedlář]

mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org píše v Út 06. 08. 2019 v 10:31 -0500:
>  $ fedpkg clone eog
>  Cloning into 'eog'...
>  remote: Counting objects: 2048, done.
>  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1594/1594), done.
>  remote: Total 2048 (delta 787), reused 1036 (delta 349)
>  Receiving objects: 100% (2048/2048), 253.53 KiB | 2.33 MiB/s, done.
>  Resolving deltas: 100% (787/787), done.
>  Could not execute clone: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
>  '/home/mcatanzaro/Projects/fedora-scm/eog/.git/info/exclude'
>  
>  The clone actually succeeds. I've been seeing this error for weeks
>  now. 
>  What's going on? 
This is a know bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733862
Basically fedpkg is trying to add patterns into the file to ignore some
commonly created files (but without polluting commit history).

On my machine git creates the file on any clone. How did you manage to
configure it to not do so?
That being said, it's still a bug and should be fixed.

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[Mattias Ellert]

ons 2019-08-07 klockan 08:30 +0200 skrev Lubomír Sedlář:

>  On my machine git creates the file on any clone. How did you manage
> to
>  configure it to not do so?
>  That being said, it's still a bug and should be fixed. 
You can prevent fedpkg from adding patterns to the exclude file by
adding the following to your ~/.config/rpkg/fedpkg.conf 

[fedpkg]
git_excludes =

	Mattias