github for mac gui

[nwtn]

I can't get lolcommits to work using Github for Mac GUI (192) on Yosemite. I've checked out other issue threads with similar problems (#104, #84, #71, and #27) and none of the solutions there worked for me. lolcommits works fine from the CLI. I've tried:

• ln -s which lolcommits /usr/local/bin/lolcommits
• sudo gem install lolcommits (to update to the latest version)
• lolcommits --disable followed by lolcommits --enable

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[matthutchinson]

Thanks for reporting this.

It turns out (after some lengthy investigation) that ASCII encoding is an issue with Yosemite, the GiHub for mac app and the git gem version we use. Out of the box, the gem fails to parse the git commit logs and throws a ASCII encoding error in Ruby (which silently gets swallowed by the post commit hook script.)

I'm going to issue a fix for this now, and release a new version of the gem (0.5.6) with some other improvements ASAP.

[matthutchinson]

Ok, can you try this;

First find out what your current LANG env variable is on the command line with;

echo $LANG

Then change the commit hook (at /path/to/repo/.git/hooks/post-commit) to have the following line before the PATH export;

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

Then exit GitHub for mac, relaunch and try a commit?

[nwtn]

Yup, that worked! Thanks!

[matthutchinson]

v0.5.6 is out now, which should solve this issue. If you upgrade, don't forget to disable and re-enable lolcommits in your repositories to get the fixed post-commit hook.