error: unknown option `list' when updating/checking out branch

[markri]

    $repo = new Repository('/home/vagrant/myrepo');
    $repo->updateAllBranches();

error: unknown option `list'
usage: git branch [options] [-r | -a] [--merged | --no-merged]
or: git branch [options] [-l] [-f] []
or: git branch [options] [-r](-d | -D)
or: git branch [options](-m | -M) []

at Caller ->execute ('branch '-v' '--list' '--no-color' '--no-abbrev' '-a' 'master'')
in cypresslab/gitelephant/src/GitElephant/Objects/TreeBranch.php at line 111

I use git 1.7.1. on CentOS 6. I guess this library depends on git 1.8.x? Can't figure out when this option was introduced, in documentation of Git it seems like this option is there forever. Also when doing "git branch --help" it doesnt show anything about the "--list" option.

[markri]

Just found out it has a minimal requirement of Git 1.7.8 (concerning the --list option), maybe this could be added in the README.md

[matteosister]

Thank you for taking your time reporting this issue.
For the next version of GitElephant the updateAllBranches() method will be removed.
This is because it's really difficult to know what to do without hacking too much.
For example git gives you in the list the remote name (for example develop has origin/develop) even if the origin branch does not actually exists. So maybe it's better to create the "pull" method on Repository and let git do the job.

If you know a way to do this in the right way let me know...

[matteosister]

closing...
updateAllBranches has been removed...

[cbulock]

It might still be a good idea to mention that git 1.7.8 is required as I am using 1.7.1 and the error is coming up for getBranches() and getMainBranch()

[matteosister]

thanks for the info!
I'm gonna find a solution asap...

[matteosister]

@cbulock there is a new version tagged 0.9.14 that should solve the problem by not using the --list option.

Could you please update and tell me if it works? Many thanks!

[cbulock]

Using v0.9.14, I retested getMainBranch() and that now works in both git 1.7.1 and the newer 1.8.2

[matteosister]

Great! Thanks...