Fails silently - not working at all

Wrote some exploratory tests to evaluate whether to use this library. To my surprise, it just does not work at all for me.

So the issue here is twofold. Number one, it does not work, and number two, there is no meaningful output that may hint to the reason why it does not work.

describe("retrieve git history", function() {


  it.only("should retreive history", () => {
    const simpleGit = require('simple-git')();

    console.log('Have simpleGit', simpleGit, process.cwd())
    simpleGit.log({ multiLine: true }).then((gitLog)=>{
      console.log('HAVE LOG', gitLog)

    })

    simpleGit.status((cbStatus)=>{
      console.log('cbStatus', cbStatus)
    }).then((gitStatus)=>{
      console.log('GIT STATUS', gitStatus)
    })
  })

})

This results in this output:

HAVE LOG undefined
cbStatus null
GIT STATUS undefined

On OsX 10.14.6,

git --version                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Fri Dec  6 10:51:16 2019
git version 2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)

And just to be clear, git log and git status work fine in that same directory.

[steveukx]

Ah, the first should have been:

simpleGit.log({ multiLine: true }, (err, gitLog)=>{
      console.log('HAVE LOG', gitLog)
    });

    simpleGit.status((err, cbStatus)=>{
      console.log('cbStatus', cbStatus)
    });

[steveukx]

The code in your example above is using .then which is a deprecated api - in simple-git the then method runs an arbitrary function at that point of the chain, whereas in simple-git/promise it is the fulfilment handler promise generated by the step in the chain.

Please try either of these:

describe("retrieve git history", function() {

  it.only("should retrieve history", () => {
    const simpleGit = require('simple-git')();

    console.log('Have simpleGit', simpleGit, process.cwd())

    simpleGit.log({ multiLine: true }, (gitLog)=>{
      console.log('HAVE LOG', gitLog)
    });

    simpleGit.status((cbStatus)=>{
      console.log('cbStatus', cbStatus)
    });
  })

});

describe("retrieve git history", function() {

  it.only("should retrieve history", () => {
    const simpleGit = require('simple-git/promise')();

    console.log('Have simpleGit', simpleGit, process.cwd())
    simpleGit.log({ multiLine: true }).then((gitLog)=>{
      console.log('HAVE LOG', gitLog)
    });

    simpleGit.status().then((gitStatus)=>{
      console.log('GIT STATUS', gitStatus)
    });
  })

})