conda-smithy rerender produces pathspec error

[floschl]

Issue: conda-smithy rerender produces pathspec error

Following step 4 of this tutorial: https://conda-forge.org/docs/user/ci-skeleton.html produces the error:

conda smithy rerender -c auto

(levmarci) c:\repos\levmar>conda smithy rerender -c auto Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\Scripts\conda-smithy-script.py", line 9, in sys.exit(main()) File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_smithy\cli.py", line 554, in main args.subcommand_func(args) File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_smithy\cli.py", line 373, in __call__ check=args.check, File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_smithy\configure_feedstock.py", line 1718, in main config = _load_forge_config(forge_dir, exclusive_config_file) File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_smithy\configure_feedstock.py", line 1442, in _load_forge_config remove_file_or_dir(os.path.join(forge_dir, old_file)) File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_smithy\feedstock_io.py", line 67, in remove_file_or_dir repo.index.remove([filename], r=True) File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\index\util.py", line 58, in post_clear_cache_if_not_raised rval = func(self, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\index\util.py", line 76, in check_default_index return func(self, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\index\base.py", line 862, in remove removed_paths = self.repo.git.rm(args, paths, **kwargs).splitlines() File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 542, in return lambda *args, **kwargs: self._call_process(name, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 1005, in _call_process return self.execute(call, **exec_kwargs) File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 822, in execute raise GitCommandError(command, status, stderr_value, stdout_value) git.exc.GitCommandError: Cmd('git') failed due to: exit code(128) cmdline: git rm -r --cached -- __pycache__ stderr: 'fatal: pathspec '__pycache__' did not match any files'

Environment (conda list):

``` $ conda list # packages in environment at C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\levmarci: # # Name Version Build Channel ```

Details about conda and system ( conda info ):

``` $ conda info active environment : levmarci active env location : C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\levmarci shell level : 2 user config file : C:\Users\floschl\.condarc populated config files : conda version : 4.8.3 conda-build version : 3.19.1 python version : 3.7.6.final.0 virtual packages : base environment : C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3 (writable) channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch package cache : C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\pkgs C:\Users\floschl\.conda\pkgs C:\Users\floschl\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs envs directories : C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs C:\Users\floschl\.conda\envs C:\Users\floschl\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs platform : win-64 user-agent : conda/4.8.3 requests/2.23.0 CPython/3.7.6 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.18362 administrator : True netrc file : None offline mode : False ```

[floschl]

I looked a little bit more into detail here. In configure_feedstock.py there is an entry, which makes the pycache dir to be deleted. In case of a packaged src in a subfolder, this dir does not exist in the top-level folder. It might make sense to remove the deletion at this point?