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diff --git a/doc/bugs/git_fails_to_compile.mdwn b/doc/bugs/git_fails_to_compile.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..87d509057 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/git_fails_to_compile.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Background: I'm running ikiwiki on OS X leopard, (a laptop), and I have the wiki running locally, as it's mostly for note taking and personal stuff. Anyway. + +I'd been using svn, but I'm making the leap to git (finally) and moving the wiki over as well... + +The git works great, I am in fact, quite pleased. Here's the problem. When I try and run `ikiwiki --setup [setupfile]` I get the following message: + + Can't exec "git": No such file or directory at /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki/Rcs/git.pm line 29. + /Users/tychoish/.ikiwiki/ikiwiki.setup: Cannot exec 'git log --max-count=50 --pretty=raw --raw --abbrev=40 --always -c -r HEAD -- .': No such file or directory + BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 6) line 139. + + /Users/$HOME/.ikiwiki/ikiwiki.setup: 'git log --max-count=50 --pretty=raw --raw --abbrev=40 --always -c -r HEAD -- .' failed: + BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 6) line 139. + +--- + +I can get the wiki to compile if: I take the git stuff out of the setup file, if I put `rcs => ""` **or** if I set the the git_master_branch to "". + +I think the problem is that ikiwiki can't deal with the onslaught of such a large quantity of history/log information at once, somehow, because the repository came to this moment with a lot of history that the compiler has to crunch through. How to remedy this, is beyond my skill insight... + +Thanks. + +-- [[tychoish]] |