Can't load any GitLens features or UI

[cameroncooke]

So I've just installed GitLens but can't get any of the features or UI to activate. I've tried restarting VSCode and this has had no effect.

My workspace is in a sub-directory of the repo root. My workspace is at MyProject/FeatureTests/ and the repo root as at MyProject/. It appears GitLens can't find the repo because it doesn't search upwards only downwards. Code's own Git features work and can see the repo just fine.

• GitLens Version: v8.5.4
• VSCode Version: 1.26.0
• OS Version: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open workspace
2. Attempt to activate any GitLens features.
3. View verbose logs, see errors.

Logs

Git found: 2.15.1 @ /usr/local/Cellar/git in 55 ms
Starting repository search in 1 folders
Searching for repositories (depth=0) in '/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests' ...
Running(/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
GitLens(v8.5.4) activated in 103 ms
FAILED(/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests): git rev-parse --show-toplevel FAILED in 19 ms
Searching for repositories (depth=0) in '/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests' took 19 ms
Running(/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/.vscode): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
Awaiting(/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/.vscode): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
FAILED(/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/.vscode): git rev-parse --show-toplevel FAILED in 7 ms
FAILED(/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/.vscode): git rev-parse --show-toplevel FAILED in 1 ms
isTracked('/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/.vscode/settings.json', 'undefined')
Running(): git ls-files /Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/.vscode/settings.json
FAILED(): git ls-files /Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/.vscode/settings.json FAILED in 5 ms
isTracked('/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/.vscode/settings.json', 'undefined') = false

[eamodio]

GitLens doesn't need to search upwards in the same way as downward, since git can provide that information directly (using git rev-parse --show-toplevel). But for some reason that seems to be failing.

Can you try running git rev-parse --show-toplevel from inside the /Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests folder? Also is the casing of that path correct?

[cameroncooke]

I’m out at the moment but I did try that and it showed the repo correctly.

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[cameroncooke]

@eamodio I've ran that command and got the following:

/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject

I notice in the head of the Gitlens logs:

Git found: 2.15.1 @ /usr/local/Cellar/git in 55 ms
Starting repository search in 1 folders
Searching for repositories (depth=0) in '/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests' ...
Running(/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
GitLens(v8.5.4) activated in 103 ms

That it executes that command to find the repo root, and then the next message is GitLens(v8.5.4) activated in 103 ms is that saying that Gitlens has found the repo and activation or does the activation happen regardless? As the following messages after the activation message are recursive searching of the repo.

[eamodio]

Hrm, and if you run git --version on the command line do you see the same version as in your log?

The activation log message just marks the end of GitLens searching for repositories.

[eamodio]

Can set gitlens.outputLevel to debug, and then post the output from the GitLens (Git) channel? It should hopefully provide more details.

[cameroncooke]

Hrm, and if you run git --version on the command line do you see the same version as in your log?

Yes Git version 2.15.1.

Debug output seems the same when outputLevel set to debug:

Git found: 2.15.1 @ /usr/local/Cellar/git in 47 ms
Starting repository search in 1 folders
Searching for repositories (depth=0) in '/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests' ...
Running(/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
GitLens(v8.5.4) activated in 90 ms
FAILED(/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests): git rev-parse --show-toplevel FAILED in 29 ms
Searching for repositories (depth=0) in '/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests' took 30 ms

[cameroncooke]

It's worth noting the vscode workspace resides in a sub-directory of the repo root /Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/.vscode while the .git directory sits in the repo root at /Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject.

[eamodio]

With it set to debug there should be 2 output channels, GitLens and GitLens (Git), can you post the output from GitLens (Git)?

[cameroncooke]

Thanks for the tip, here is the output:

[2018-08-20 08:16:22:691] git rev-parse --show-toplevel FAILED in 24 ms (/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests)

Error: spawn EACCES
[2018-08-20 08:16:22:763] git rev-parse --show-toplevel FAILED in 6 ms (/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/features)

Error: spawn EACCES
[2018-08-20 08:16:22:763] git rev-parse --show-toplevel FAILED in 2 ms (/Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/features)

Error: spawn EACCES
[2018-08-20 08:16:22:769] git ls-files /Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject/FeatureTests/features/search.feature FAILED in 4 ms ()

Error: spawn EACCES

[cameroncooke]

If I run these commands above in the VSCode Terminal panel they work as expected. Also the output from VSCode Git logs is:

Looking for git in: /usr/local/bin/git
Using git 2.15.1 from /usr/local/bin/git
> git rev-parse --show-toplevel
> git config --get commit.template
Open repository: /Users/joe_bloggs/Source/MyProject

Which I believe is doing exactly the same thing your extension is doing and is working and finding the repo.

[cameroncooke]

Ok I've fixed it by adding the following to my settings:

"gitlens.advanced.git": "/usr/local/bin/git"

Essentially telling Gitlens to use the same Git executable as VSCode. I'm not sure why it wouldn't do that by default, to be honest. So might be a bug there but this workaround works for me.

[cameroncooke]

Thanks for your help on this.