Cannot find the repo cloned with ``bender import`` about bender HOT 6 CLOSED

The import feature in bender requires a mapping to be defined to include parts of the upstream repository into your project. The repository is cloned into a temporary location, and the needed files are copied over afterwards, so it makes sense that you cannot find the repository.
Try adding the --refetch flag to the bender import command, as this will trigger the proper update of your files. Otherwise bender will attempt to print a diff between the files included in your repository and those in the upstream, and here it cannot find the needed directory.
If this fixes the issue, I will update the documentation, errors, and code to provide a bit better user experience for this feature.

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Thanks @micprog,
Adding the --refetch flag did the trick. When I run bender import without the --refetch it throws the error below;

error: Cannot startup runtime. No such file or directory (os error 2)

But, when I use --refetch for the same Bender.yml file, it works perfectly.

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Follow up question, Is there an easy way to get all the files in that repo without listing all of the files in the mapping? I tried using * like below, but unfortunately, it didn't work.

    mapping: 
      - {from: '*', to: '*' }

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You can link directories, so you could try and give '.' a shot, but I haven't tested that yet. It might make sense to by default clone the full repository if no mapping is provided, but that is not implemented yet.

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It might make sense to by default clone the full repository if no mapping is provided

I agree.

I tested '.' , folder_layer1 and folder_layer1/folder_layer2/last_folder cases and only the last one is working. i.e. it cannot link recursively. Maybe, linking recursively can be another feature that may be added in the future releases.

Thanks again

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Found it. If I do it like below, it works. But, it still throws an error and looks like skips the .txt files. Interesting.

    mapping: 
      - {from: '', to: '' }

error: Cannot startup runtime. No such file or directory (os error 2)

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