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Git error in plandex-server: Fatal: unable to write new_index file #202

Open notatestuser opened 2 weeks ago

notatestuser commented 2 weeks ago

Plandex errors out at the end of "tell" when git has not been init'ed in the current working dir. This seems a bit strange as, although git is the most popular scm on the block, a tool like plandex should not require that we use it.

danenania commented 2 weeks ago

It's not intended that git be required so this sounds like a bug. Could you paste in the error message?

notatestuser commented 2 weeks ago

I've been trying to reproduce it for about an hour without luck. I'll let you know if it appears again, but for context, it was on a repo where I had just deleted .git before running plandex.

notatestuser commented 2 weeks ago

Caught it. It happened in the final stages of a tell.

 🏗  Build incomplete
📄 app/components/BalanceDisplay.tsx ⠹ | 📄 app/lib/web-service.ts ✅ | 📄 package.json ✅

🚨 Server error
  → Stream error
    → Failed to commit
      → Error committing files to git repository for dir
        → /plandex-server/orgs/40173f9d-21a1-xxxx-xxxx-eab753989xxx/plans/3cbd4902-e2b2-xxxx-xxxx-a94fe621axxx, err
          → Exit status 128, output
            → Fatal: unable to write new_index file

And now I can see that it's trying to use git within plandex-server, so my original suspicion that it was making git necessary within the project dir seems to have been wrong.

If it matters, I'm using plandex 1.1.1 on macOS 15.0.1 with Apple Git-154.

danenania commented 2 weeks ago

Thanks @notatestuser, this is a known race condition issue on the server and a fix is slotted for the next release. You can usually work around it by using plandex rewind and plandex continue to retry.