enableGitInfo: "Got error reading Git log: exit status 128"

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“Got error reading Git log: exit status 128”

which git: /usr/bin/git

cat .gitignore

public/
themes/

Command I ran

hugo serve --enableGitInfo

How can I debug this to get more than just exit status 128?

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You currently can not, I’m afraid. I have added this issue to track it (see below).

  • My first guess would be a path issue, but that does not seem to be it.
  • My second guess would be that you use a “too old” Git version, i.e. we use some options not available in your’s, see
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Thank you

git version 2.11.0 (Apple Git-81)

excerpt of my $PATH

:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

I tried making a new hugo site with no content and initing a git repo, same error.

Hugo Static Site Generator v0.21

Is my git updated enough? Are there any other things I could try to debug?

(I’m hoping to use this for the automatic lastmod functionality for my sitemap)

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This is my git:

▶ git version
git version 2.12.2

So your Git should be fine. I’m sorry, but I cannot help you remotely with this one; I will put it on my list to fix that error message, but that is of no help for you now. But I have used it myself and know others have without any issues, so …

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I install git from brew so you might try that, to get a more recent one than the default one Apple supplies. Mine is 2.13.0. @arikroc

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Thanks @RickCogley

Tried that and now have

git version 2.13.0

still same error, “Got error reading Git log: exit status 128”

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@arikroc hmm. Are you running the hugo server command from where it can see the git log, i.e. from your repo? I have my hugo server commands set up as zsh functions, which cds to the appropriate repo root before I run them.

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Yes. I’m running hugo server and git commit/log/etc from the same directory (that contains my .git folder)

Any other ideas?

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@arikroc what happens when you run git log with the same args that Bep cites in the code above?

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@RickCogley

git -C %s log --name-only --no-merges
fatal: Cannot change to ‘%s’: No such file or directory

Then replacing %s with the current directory:

git -C . log --name-only --no-merges --format=format:%%x1e%%H%%x1f%%h%%x1f%%s%%x1f%%aN%%x1f%%aE%%x1f%%ai

%x1e%H%x1f%h%x1f%s%x1f%aN%x1f%aE%x1f%ai
content/test.md
public/categories/index.xml
public/index.xml
public/sitemap.xml
public/tags/index.xml

%x1e%H%x1f%h%x1f%s%x1f%aN%x1f%aE%x1f%ai
config.toml

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The %s is a variable being used by the go code.

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@RickCogley Yep sorry I realized that after posting and edited my post above

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@RickCogley And now I realize %% is escaping the string, so the proper result is:

git -C . log --name-only --no-merges --format=format:%x1e%H%x1f%h%x1f%s%x1f%aN%x1f%aE%x1f%ai

c3dd02d2dde75d3f88681487826bed93461fa123c3dd02dinitial[name][email]2017-05-28 15:03:19 -0700
content/test.md
public/categories/index.xml
public/index.xml
public/sitemap.xml
public/tags/index.xml

380c709108742508c7a3b1fafbacfad8a081d7e7380c709test[name][email]2017-05-28 11:48:14 -0700
config.toml

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@bep Anything else you’d suggest trying?

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Sorry, not at this point.

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@RickCogley any other ideas?

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Hmm, not really @arikroc. I am using a zsh function to run my various hugo servers, so the ports don’t conflict:

 function hugoserver-rc5 {
     cd /path/to/rc5
     hugo server --buildDrafts --watch --verbose --source="/path/to/rc5" --config="/path/to/rc5/config.toml" --port=1314 
 }

… and I tried it with and without --enableGitInfo. Actually, I just have that in my config.toml so it should be redundant from the cli, but, I tried it either way, with no error.

~../rc5 ❯ git version                                                                                            
git version 2.13.0
~../rc5 ❯ which git                                                                                              
/usr/local/bin/git
~../rc5 ❯ hugo env                                                                                            
Hugo Static Site Generator v0.22-DEV-421A4694 darwin/amd64 BuildDate: 2017-05-25T11:58:11+09:00
GOOS="darwin"
GOARCH="amd64"
GOVERSION="go1.8.3"
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Darn. Okay, thanks for the info :slight_smile: I appreciate that you included it

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@bep @RickCogley I’ve got it! Just did this ~1.5 mins ago.

Realized my hugo project is in a sub directory and one of the upper level folders had a space in the name.

So I renamed that folder so it had no space in the name.

And presto, it works, perfectly.

So for anyone else that experiences this issue:

Make sure there is no whitespace in the names of any of the folders in the entire folder tree that contains your hugo project directory

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Glad to hear it. Maybe hugo can be made to detect or deal with a space in the path. Or maybe you just need to specify the paths exactly in the hugo server command. Since they are quoted, I wonder if specifying them exactly in the args, or, perhaps escaping the space would change it.

As for me, I always avoid spaces in paths where I can, since there’s always something like this that happens, in my experience.

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