git "Error: Command failed: Unknown option: -c"

[jklewa]

Navigate to http://localhost:8448/#/repository?path=%2Fmypath%2Fblah%2ungit

I see "Whooops Something went wrong, reload the page to start over."

And this api call

http://localhost:8448/api/status?path=%2Fmypath%2Fblah%2Fungit

returns this error message:

{
  "errorCode": "unknown",
  "command": "git -c color.ui=false status -s -b -u",
  "error": "Error: Command failed: Unknown option: -c\nusage: git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [--html-path]\n           [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects]\n           [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE]\n           [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]\n",
  "stderr": "Unknown option: -c\nusage: git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [--html-path]\n           [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects]\n           [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE]\n           [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]\n",
  "stdout": ""
}

[Ajedi32]

It looks like you need to update git. What version are you using right now? (git --version)

Although, if a specific version of git is required for ungit to work properly that should definitely be noted in the documentation somewhere.

[jklewa]

$ git --version
git version 1.7.1

It looks like I do need to update git, the current version is 1.8.3.4 I believe.

Edit: Version 1.7.1 is the "current" version in yum on centos 6.4. I guess I'll be updating to git 1.8.3.4 by installing it from its source.

[mnlfischer]

same problem here! I have the version 1.8.3 and get this message when I try to commit the first document.

[FredrikNoren]

@manuuu- Hm that's really strange, I'm running 1.8.3 here too. If you just type git and hit enter it should show some available options, is -c not one of them?

@jklewa Yeah that's the easy solution right now. I'll try and see if I can make it work with git 1.7 when I have time

[FredrikNoren]

As it looks now I don't think it will be realistic for me to try to add 1.7 support (just to much other stuff that needs to be done). If someone else wants to do it I'd be happy to review and merge, but I'm closing this ticket at least as it's not likely to be supported.