For the record - I get the same error using those steps on Ubuntu as well. So I must be doing something wrong?
(Note in my message when I pasted the command used - I neglected the git in front of: log --diff-filter=D --summary —pretty="format:%cd | %h | %H | %cn%n-> %s%n”) Tim > On 28 Jun 2018, at 00:46, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > > And just to add to this - I just did a git clone (git clone g...@github.com > <mailto:g...@github.com>:pharo-project/pharo.git) in a fresh directory and > can see that same deleted file - and when I try to do a checkout, it gives > the path spec error. > > This is very weird - is it some osx thing? I will try it on ubuntu - but I > feel I must be missing something, like do I need a different prefix on path > names (but you didn’t seem to need one)? > > I’d be very worried if git is acting up… but I still suspect user error here. > > Tim > > >> On 28 Jun 2018, at 00:38, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works >> <mailto:tim@testit.works>> wrote: >> >> Hey thanks Ben - this still doesn’t work for me… good idea to try on the >> Pharo repo itself. >> >> I have a fork of it, which I catch up periodically - so I tried a similar >> suggestion to you - went into my directory (underneath the src folder) and >> typed: >> >> log --diff-filter=D --summary --graph --pretty='format:%cd | %h | %H | >> %cn%n-> %s%n’ >> >> This gave me: >> >> Tue Jun 19 19:28:37 2018 +0200 | 13e81343e | >> 13e81343e8a23a8d6ca43f1c77b804b8134fc986 | CyrilFerlicot >> -> Remove now useless logs >> >> delete mode 100755 bootstrap/scripts/printFolderContent.sh >> >> Mon Jun 18 16:50:19 2018 +0200 | 0433d908d | >> 0433d908de2987fa0069a47dee1f0794ccbb52c2 | GitHub >> -> Revert "22161-Add-more-log-to-bootstrap" >> >> delete mode 100755 bootstrap/scripts/printFolderContent.sh >> >> Thu Jun 14 11:41:16 2018 +0200 | b4a285a61 | >> b4a285a61d3eb0cc1e642b2fcc242dac7092617f | Marcus Denker >> -> fix the last sender of #asIcon >> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/22139/fix-the-last-sender-of-asIcon >> <https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/22139/fix-the-last-sender-of-asIcon> >> >> delete mode 100644 src/Polymorph-Widgets-Rules/IconShortcutRule.class.st >> <http://iconshortcutrule.class.st/> >> >> So then I tried to recover that last one (again at root underneath the src >> directory) >> >> git checkout b4a285a61 src/Polymorph-Widgets-Rules/IconShortcutRule.class.st >> <http://iconshortcutrule.class.st/> >> error: pathspec 'src/Polymorph-Widgets-Rules/IconShortcutRule.class.st >> <http://iconshortcutrule.class.st/>' did not match any file(s) known to git. >> >> And I still get that dreaded pathspec error. This is on OSX (not windows) - >> so I’m struggling to understand what I could be doing wrong. It must be >> something obvious - but damned if I can see how I’m doing anything different >> to you. And it wouldn’t make sense that git is broken on OSX? >> >> Tim >> >>> On 25 Jun 2018, at 14:21, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com >>> <mailto:b...@openinworld.com>> wrote: >>> >>> On 25 June 2018 at 19:41, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works >>> <mailto:tim@testit.works>> wrote: >>> I’d be really interested if someone with lower level GIT knowledge might >>> try a: >>> >>> git checkout <gitid> src/<proj>/<class>.class.st >>> <http://prismicblock.class.st/> >>> >>> For their project - as I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong - and I’d >>> like the comfort of knowing that our source is in a place/state where we >>> can rely on normal git tools in a case of emergency. At the moment, I’m a >>> bit nervous that we are corrupting something . >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> I'm not sure if this is what you wanted, but I found a test case for for >>> Pharo 7, a deleted class "MultiByteFileStreamTest.class.st >>> <http://multibytefilestreamtest.class.st/>" >>> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1031/files#diff-750a25fb99d29cda8c2c388dc18f6c1cL1 >>> >>> <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1031/files#diff-750a25fb99d29cda8c2c388dc18f6c1cL1> >>> >>> From Windows 10 cmd.exe I tried the following (I can't remember which tool >>> installed `git`)... >>> >>> > mkdir C:\temp\test >>> > cd C:\temp\test >>> > git clone g...@github.com <mailto:g...@github.com>:pharo-project/pharo.git >>> > cd pharo\src\Deprecated70 >>> > dir Multi* >>> no result >>> > git checkout e74308e67d9f84 MultiByteFileStreamTest.class.st >>> > <http://multibytefilestreamtest.class.st/> >>> > dir Multi* >>> MultiByteFileStreamTest.class.st <http://multibytefilestreamtest.class.st/> >>> >>> Then I compared the file I checked out to the raw file on github and they >>> were identical... >>> https://www.diffchecker.com/gVCpJzFe <https://www.diffchecker.com/gVCpJzFe> >>> >>> >>> btw, I did get a momentary error "error: pathspec >>> 'src/Deprecated70/MultiByteFileStreamTest.class.st >>> <http://multibytefilestreamtest.class.st/>' did not match any file(s) known >>> to git." >>> when I incorrectly did... >>> > cd pharo\src\Deprecated70 >>> > git git checkout e74308e67d9f84 >>> > src/Deprecated70/MultiByteFileStreamTest.class.st >>> > <http://multibytefilestreamtest.class.st/> >>> >>> >>> This worked with the longer path... >>> > cd pharo >>> > git git checkout e74308e67d9f84 >>> > src/Deprecated70/MultiByteFileStreamTest.class.st >>> > <http://multibytefilestreamtest.class.st/> >>> cheers -ben >> >
