[pass] Using X primary selection and fix for git pull

[Matthieu Weber]

On Tue 06.08.2013 at 11:09:35AM -0700, milki wrote:
> On 10:22 Tue 06 Aug     , Matthieu Weber wrote:
> > On Mon 05.08.2013 at 06:26:49PM -0700, milki wrote:
> > > On 21:35 Mon 05 Aug     , Matthieu Weber wrote:
> > > > The second is that for some reason (my git version is too old?), "pass git pull"
> > > > fails with the following error: 
> > > >   fatal: /usr/lib/git-core/git-pull cannot be used without a working tree.
> > > > The solution is to "cd $GIT_WORK_TREE" before executing git, which should be
> > > > harmless. An alternative would be to unset GIT_WORK_TREE, but I fear it would
> > > > break some other git command :(
> > > 
> > > Perhaps it should be git fetch instead? Or maybe it should actually be a
> > > mirror and use git push --mirror and git fetch --mirror.
> > 
> > What is this --mirror option? I can't find it in git-fetch man page.
> 
> Hm...seems to only be visible for clone and push. There's also the
> config remote.<name>.mirror.
> 
> 
> > And even though "pass git fetch" works perfectly, it does not update the
> > working directory (pull is equal to fetch + merge), so the updating of
> > the working directory must be made as a separate step.
> 
> Yes thats true. For some reason, I was thinking there was no working
> dir. cd'ing or setting the GIT_WORKTREE would be the correct solutions
> then.

GIT_WORK_TREE is set, and that's what's triggering the bug in (at least
v 1.7.2.5 and 1.6.x of) git. It should work (but doesn't) and cd'ing is
a workaround.

Matthieu
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