On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 09:24:31AM +0100, rozanski.s...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am convinced that something serious has changed in the new version of git.
>
> I could afford it, so in one project I deleted the repository in Bitbucket
> and set up a new one (renamed). Then I removed the .git from the project
> directory and cloned the project to where the old one was.
I thought Bitbucket is a Git reposiory hosting solution, but your message
sounds as if Bitbucket is a desktop application. Am I correct, and such
application does really exist and you have used it to clone a Git repo?
> In the SourceTree application, everything worked fine - I ran PHPStorm and
> got a message that there was no git repository, or the root directory was
> not set. In PHPStorm, I set the root directory of the project, as "commit
> directory", and since then, in the SourceTree app, I got the message:
(Please do not post screenshots of text - I'll give a short explanation as to
why, after the bulk of my message).
> Interestingly - in other projects, where I didn't change anything, in the
> SourceTree app I have exactly the same error message with code 128.
I don't quite parse this part about SourceTree and PHPStorm.
I read it as follows:
1. SourceTree worked fine on a particular repository (cloned using
Bitbucket?).
2. You have tweaked some setting in PHPStorm trying to "attach" it to that
repository, and...
3. ...that made SourceTree fail on that repository - saying it's unable to
run `git status` there and exiting with exit code 128.
4. With all other existing (not re-cloned from somewhere using Bitbucket)
Git repositories SourceTree behaves exactly as described on step 3.
Is the above correct?
> Something has changed between the new version of git and PHPStorm - just
> what?
While your investigation is interesting, I would again urge you to listen what
I and Philip have suggested and verify whether _plain Git works_ (or doesn't).
To understand my insistence, you should consider two facts:
* Git is not only a piece of software but also a documented format of the
repository which actually holds the data and protocols Git clients and
servers use to exchange data between different Git repositories.
* While Git-as-a-software-package does provide low-level command-line tools
specifically tailored to be called by other pieces of software, no piece
of software is oblidged to do so - exactly because the format of Git
repositories and the Git data exchange protocols are documented, and any
programmer can implement a piece of software which works with Git
repositories and communicates using Git data exchange protocol.
So, you've basically tested three pieces of software - Bitbucket (I have no
idea what it is, but let's assume it's really a piece of software), SourceTree
(I've managed to google it) and PHPStorm, and neither of them is a part of
Git, and I have no idea whether they actually call out to Git to carry out
their Git-related tasks or implement some other ways to work with Git
repositories). Because of that, we cannot guess what actually broke because
you did not yet try to actually run _Git itself_ and see if it works.
If we'll see plain Git fails, that will be one path to follow further, if
we'll see plain Git works but the software using it fails, then that's a hint
something has changed in Git in a way which broke those pieces of software.
And while we're at it - may by try installing 2.39.0?
It has been released [*].
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A note on screenshots of text.
There are multiple problems with them:
- They assume whatever way the mail readers use to read their mail readily
and conveniently shows embedded image attachments. Good or bad, but as
e-mail was invented for text, and is primarily about text, quite many
dinosaurs like me read it using console-based software - even though this
software runs in an otherwise graphical desktop environment.
- Text in images is not indexed by Internet search engines. I mean, the error
shown by SourceTree may be the key to the problem, but even though our
e-mail exchange is archived and indexed by Google, that error message is
not - because it has never been written in any of the mail messages in this
exchange in the text form. Hence our discussion is impossible to find
on the Internet using the key words. I mean, the next guy to have this
problem will type that error message in their browser and the Internet
search engine of their choice will be unable to find our discussion.
Please note that consoles on Windows have an ability to select and copy text
displayed in them, and even the apparenly GUI-only windows such as standard
Windows dialog boxes support pressing Ctrl-C in them to copy the text they
display to the clipboard. More explanations - here [**].
[*] https://groups.google.com/g/git-for-windows/c/mHKYD4XZ4o0
[**] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/285557/720999
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