"git clone" error message is useless

[Devmeon]

I am having an issue while adding a mirror by using ssh. I had this error another time and bypassed the error by using https link to the repository. But i only have ssh access this time.

Command line : braid add --verbose ssh://git@IP/rac/project.git Externe/M2M

Output : Braid: Executing git --version` in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4

Braid: Executing git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Executing git rev-parse --show-prefix in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Executing git status in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Executing git rev-parse HEAD in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Executing git add .braids.json in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Adding mirror of 'ssh://git@IP/rac/project.git'. Braid: Executing git --version in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Executing git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Executing git rev-parse --show-prefix in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Executing git config remote.master/braid/Externe/M2M.url in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Setup: Mirror 'Externe/M2M' already has a remote. Replacing it (force) Braid: Executing git remote rm master/braid/Externe/M2M in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Setup: Creating remote for 'Externe/M2M'. Braid: Executing git remote add master/braid/Externe/M2M C:/Users/Tristan/.braid/cache/ssh___git_IP_rac_project.git in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Executing git config remote.master/braid/Externe/M2M.url in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Executing git clone --mirror ssh://git@IP/rac/project.git C:/Users/Tristan/.braid/cache/ssh___git_IP_rac_project.git in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Resetting to 'c4d9820'. Braid: Executing git reset --hard c4d98205dd713a7de7c1161664a4f69b056d2216 in D:/Devmeon/AMC/erdf-c1c4 Braid: Shell error: Cloning into bare repository 'C:/Users/Tristan/.braid/cache/ssh___git_IP_rac_project.git'...`

braid version : braid 1.1.3 git version : git version 2.27.0.windows.1

[mattmccutchen]

It looks like Braid is printing only the first line of the stderr output when git clone fails. That's unhelpful; we should either print the full output or find some other solution.

In the meantime, if you can run Braid from source, please try replacing @err.to_s.split("\n").first with @err.to_s in lib/braid/operations.rb to get the full output. If that's too hard, you can wait for us to make a Braid release with the better error reporting.

[mattmccutchen]

I'm going to use this thread for the bad git clone error reporting. Devmeon, if you determine that the actual error is caused by another bug in Braid rather than a misconfiguration by you, please file another issue.