Failed to init empty repo

[agrml]

Initialization of empty repo does not going well. So I have just installed homely (sudo pip3 install homely) and have an empty GitHub repo to be used. homely add is swearing:

$ homely add git@github.com:agrml/dotfiles.git
[Tue Mar 13 17:13:17 2018]     HOME: /home/mikhail
[Tue Mar 13 17:13:17 2018]     tmp:  /tmp/tmpeyr29m2t/dotfiles
[Tue Mar 13 17:13:17 2018]     Cloning git@github.com:agrml/dotfiles.git to tmp:/tmp/tmpeyr29m2t/dotfiles
[Tue Mar 13 17:13:17 2018]     $ git clone git@github.com:agrml/dotfiles.git /tmp/tmpeyr29m2t/dotfiles
[Tue Mar 13 17:13:17 2018]     &> Cloning into '/tmp/tmpeyr29m2t/dotfiles'...
[Tue Mar 13 17:13:20 2018]     &> warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/bin/homely", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homely/_cli.py", line 346, in main
    homely()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homely/_cli.py", line 37, in proxy
    command(**kwargs)
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homely/_cli.py", line 99, in add
    localrepo, needpull = addfromremote(repo, dest_path)
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homely/_ui.py", line 310, in addfromremote
    tmprepoid = localrepo.getrepoid()
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homely/_vcs/git.py", line 92, in getrepoid
    raise RepoHasNoCommitsError()
homely._errors.RepoHasNoCommitsError

Why should it be disallowed?
Ok, now the repo has a commit with readme. But homely still can't create dotfiles folder:

$ homely add git@github.com:agrml/dotfiles.git
[Tue Mar 13 17:19:52 2018]     HOME: /home/mikhail
[Tue Mar 13 17:19:52 2018]     tmp:  /tmp/tmpwaucr_16/dotfiles
[Tue Mar 13 17:19:52 2018]     Cloning git@github.com:agrml/dotfiles.git to tmp:/tmp/tmpwaucr_16/dotfiles
[Tue Mar 13 17:19:52 2018]     $ git clone git@github.com:agrml/dotfiles.git /tmp/tmpwaucr_16/dotfiles
[Tue Mar 13 17:19:52 2018]     &> Cloning into '/tmp/tmpwaucr_16/dotfiles'...
Warning: the RSA host key for 'github.com' differs from the key for the IP address '192.30.253.113'
Offending key for IP in /home/mikhail/.ssh/known_hosts:34
Matching host key in /home/mikhail/.ssh/known_hosts:41
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/bin/homely", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homely/_cli.py", line 346, in main
    homely()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homely/_cli.py", line 37, in proxy
    command(**kwargs)
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homely/_cli.py", line 99, in add
    localrepo, needpull = addfromremote(repo, dest_path)
  File "/home/mikhail/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homely/_ui.py", line 344, in addfromremote
    os.rename(tmp, dest_path)
OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link: '/tmp/tmpwaucr_16/dotfiles' -> '/home/mikhail/dotfiles'

What am I doing wrong?

Ubuntu 16.04 (4.4.0-116-generic) x86-64. Homely 0.15.2 via pip3.

[lokal-profil]

I'm having the same second issue. In my case it's likely because /tmp/ is not on the same partition as /home/. Per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42392600/oserror-errno-18-invalid-cross-device-link the solution should be to switch from os.rename to shutil.move

[Darksider3]

@phodge Wouldn't a

...
try:
  os.rename(tmp, dest_path)
except OSError as e:
  import errno
  if e.errno == errno.EXDEV:
    import shutils
    shutil.move(tmp, dest_path)

do the trick in line 344? I know it's rather ugly to import in-place, but os.rename won't copy cross-device, and i think to remember copy&delete wouldn't do it either...