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Error: spawn git.exe ENOENT

See original GitHub issue

Description

Upgraded to Desktop v1.3, got this error immediately after it opened:

Version

GitHub Desktop: 1.3.0

Operating system: Windows

Steps to Reproduce

Update Github Desktop to v1.3
Get Error

Logs

No errors in the logs

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:10
Comments:31 (14 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

23reactions

shiftkeycommented, Jul 30, 2018

Thanks to everyone who has reported this. We believe this is related to missing repositories and the new repository indicator feature.

What’s happening here is:

a repository that Desktop was previously tracking is now missing from disk
the upgrade triggers the new repository indicators
in the background the app tries to check this missing repository
it doesn’t handle the ENOENT error (because it’s trying to be run in a directory that doesn’t exist)
this is being done outside our existing error infrastructure, so it displays to the user

As a workaround, you can remove these missing repositories on disk - it might take some time to click through the list and find the problem repository.

We’re working on a fix now to handle this error and not display any UI. Stay tuned.

16reactions

shiftkeycommented, Jul 30, 2018

1.3.1 has been published, and should address the issue of background updates.

We are also tracking #5289 which you might encounter when you manually switch to a repository that’s been removed outside Desktop, and that will hopefully go into the next update.

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