[chef] Re: Git failures, Windows, Chef

[Jeff Blaine < >]

I'm very surprised nobody's having these issues. Maybe everyone
doing git+chef work is on Windows 7 still?

On 8/11/2014 10:26 AM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> I can't be the only person experiencing frustration with Git on Windows,
> which is essential do using any Windows box as a Chef Workstation of
> course. I've been unable to find any reason and solution to the
> following. If anyone has ideas, please share. I find it hard to believe
> people use Windows as a Chef workstation on a daily basis with the
> configuration below. What's the secret?
> 
> * Windows 8 (I had these same issues ~7 months ago) and Windows
>   8.1 (now)
> * Git 1.9.4 installer from git-scm.org
> * Git-Bash as the command shell
> 
> I intermittently get:
> 
>   ERROR: Errno::EIO: Input/output error - CreateProcessW
> 
> ... and then the command in question will work fine.
> 
> ...or I get some unknown failure as part of 'knife cookbook site
> install...' commands that also then leave me sitting on some
> chef-vendor-XXXXX branch:
> 
>   
> 
 
>  ~/chef-repo (master)
>   $ knife cookbook site install vagrant --verbose
>   Installing vagrant to c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks
>   Checking out the master branch.
>   Pristine copy branch (chef-vendor-vagrant) exists, switching to it.
>   Downloading vagrant from the cookbooks site at version 0.2.0 to
> c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/vagrant.tar.gz
>   Cookbook saved: c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/vagrant.tar.gz
>   Removing pre-existing version.
>   Uncompressing vagrant version 0.2.0.
>   removing downloaded tarball
>   No changes made to vagrant
>   Checking out the master branch.
>   Installing dmg to c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks
>   Checking out the master branch.
>   Pristine copy branch (chef-vendor-dmg) exists, switching to it.
>   Downloading dmg from the cookbooks site at version 2.2.0 to
> c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/dmg.tar.gz
>   Cookbook saved: c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/dmg.tar.gz
>   Removing pre-existing version.
>   Uncompressing dmg version 2.2.0.
>   removing downloaded tarball
>   3 files updated, committing changes
>   ERROR: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit
> with [0], but received '1'
>   ---- Begin output of git commit -m "Import dmg version 2.2.0" -- dmg ----
>   STDOUT: On branch chef-vendor-dmg
>   nothing to commit, working directory clean
>   STDERR:
>   ---- End output of git commit -m "Import dmg version 2.2.0" -- dmg ----
>   Ran git commit -m "Import dmg version 2.2.0" -- dmg returned 1
> 
>   
> 
 
>  ~/chef-repo (chef-vendor-dmg)
>   $
> 
> 
> 
> 

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