ERROR: Unable to write ignore file

[evandavey]

OSX: 10.12.1
Python 2.7.12
Git: 2.11.0
mbed-cli: 1.0.0

mbed import mbed-os-example-blinky
[mbed] Importing program "mbed-os-example-blinky" from "https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os-example-blinky" at latest revision in the current branch
[mbed] ERROR: Unable to write ignore file in "/Users/evandavey/Documents/engineering/mbed-os-example-blinky/.git/info/exclude"

[bridadan]

@evandavey thanks for reporting this. Does this happen each time you run mbed import mbed-os-example-blinky? If so, could you please post the full verbose log by running mbed import mbed-os-example-blinky -v

[evandavey]

Yes, every time. Verbose (or very verbose) log doesn't help much:

mbed] Working path "/Users/evandavey/Documents/engineering/experiments" (directory)
[mbed] Importing program "mbed-os-example-blinky" from "https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os-example-blinky" at latest revision in the current branch
[mbed] Exec "git clone https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os-example-blinky /Users/evandavey/Documents/engineering/experiments/mbed-os-example-blinky" in /Users/evandavey/Documents/engineering/experiments
Cloning into '/Users/evandavey/Documents/engineering/experiments/mbed-os-example-blinky'...
remote: Counting objects: 153, done.
remote: Total 153 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 153
Receiving objects: 100% (153/153), 181.10 KiB | 171.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (55/55), done.
[mbed] ERROR: Unable to write ignore file in "/Users/evandavey/Documents/engineering/experiments/mbed-os-example-blinky/.git/info/exclude"

[bridadan]

Hmm, looks like it cloned correctly. Can you confirm that the directory /Users/evandavey/Documents/engineering/experiments/mbed-os-example-blinky/.git/info/exclude exists?

If so, what are the permissions on that folder? Can you run ls -la from /Users/evandavey/Documents/engineering/experiments/mbed-os-example-blinky/.git/info?

[evandavey]

The info folder doesn't exist. This is from /Users/evandavey/Documents/engineering/experiments/mbed-os-example-blinky/.git/

drwxr-xr-x  11 evandavey  staff   374  9 Dec 09:08 .
drwxr-xr-x   8 evandavey  staff   272  9 Dec 08:59 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 evandavey  staff    23  9 Dec 08:59 HEAD
-rw-r--r--   1 evandavey  staff   319  9 Dec 08:59 config
drwxr-xr-x   7 evandavey  staff   238  9 Dec 08:59 hooks
-rw-r--r--   1 evandavey  staff   477  9 Dec 09:07 index
drwxr-xr-x   4 evandavey  staff   136  9 Dec 08:59 logs
drwxr-xr-x   4 evandavey  staff   136  9 Dec 08:59 objects
-rw-r--r--   1 evandavey  staff  1725  9 Dec 08:59 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x   5 evandavey  staff   170  9 Dec 08:59 refs
-rw-r--r--   1 evandavey  staff   370  9 Dec 08:59 tags

[evandavey]

I tried the Apple version of git git version 2.9.3 (Apple Git-75) but same issue so that doesn't appear to be the problem.

[bridadan]

Huh, weird. I'm using version 2.10.2 for Windows. Even if I do a git init it creates that folder for me. We haven't seen this on any other platforms, so this is interesting indeed!

Try this:

1. Ensure that it is in fact still broken by running the command mbed deploy inside your mbed-os-example-blinky directory . It should give you the same error.
2. Create a info directory inside the .git directory.
3. Run mbed deploy again. This should fix your problem.

If you can confirm that those steps worked, then we can patch mbed-cli to always create the info directory if it doesn't exist.

[evandavey]

1. Confirming git init does not create info folder.
2. Confirming mbed deploy reports same error
3. Confirming creating .git/info then mbed deploy works (but note the same write error occurs on the mbed-os/.git/info folder).

[bridadan]

Great, thanks @evandavey! I've created a patch here: #404

Would you mind testing it locally to see if that fixes your problem?

[bridadan]

Should be good to close when #404 is merged.