[chef] Re: Re: Git failures, Windows, Chef

[Sean Escriva < >]

Hi Jeff!

Jeff Blaine 
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 writes:

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

I haven't seen this issue with chef+git+windows. In one case, though not
chef specific, I have regularly used git on windows with a largish repo 
(150MB+).

Perhaps at the very least you could obtain more info with GIT_TRACE and
maybe GIT_CURL_VERBOSE

since you're using git bash, this should at least give you a lot more
debug output

  export GIT_TRACE=1
  export GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1
  knife cookbook site install vagrant --verbose

maybe that will give you a better idea what's failing.

>
> 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)
>>   $

-- 
-sean