"doesn't know its parents" error message — need to use gitlab-grit

[ruv]

This tools doesn't work in default installation (at least on Cygwin). It just produces
#omitting #xxx that doesn't know its parents
for every item.

The command gem install gitlab-grit solves this problem. It installs GitLab fork of Grit version 2.8.1 (for the moment).

Whereas by default Grit 2.5.0 is installed. But it seems that this version is outdated now and Grit is no longer maintained.

In default installation, ref.parents throws NoMethodError on every item in filtering decorated list:

decorated.reject!{|ref|
begin
  ref.parents
  false
rescue NoMethodError
  puts "#omitting #{ref} that doesn't know its parents"
  true
end}

Actually, repo.branches[0].commit.parents throws error:

NoMethodError: undefined method `>>' for "x":String

[jerith666]

Seems like a common theme -- see #7 and #8 as well. :)

Shall we just patch README to say to install https://github.com/gitlabhq/grit explicitly?

[ruv]

Yes, patching README is better than nothing ;)

But why don't just update Gemfile — can we put gem "gitlab-grit" in place of gem "grit"?

[jerith666]

Duh, yes -- sorry, I'm not doing much ruby these days. :) PR welcome, otherwise I'll try to get it done myself soon.