Railway•13mo ago

Not In a git Directory

Hi, I have a NodeJS server I'm trying to deploy → it runs a build script that pulls code from Github (for a git submodule w/ files the main project reads from). I'm getting the error not in a git directory when I try to run git commands. Here is my script buildCms.js:

import config from '../src/config';
import { exec } from 'child_process';
import fs from 'fs';
import { logger } from '../src/modules/logging';
import { promisify } from 'util';

const execAsync = promisify(exec);

async function cleanCms() {
  const cmsPath = './cms';

  if (fs.existsSync(cmsPath)) {
    try {
      await fs.promises.rm(cmsPath, { recursive: true, force: true });
      logger.info('cms cleaned successfully.');
    } catch (err) {
      logger.error('error cleaning cms', err);
    }
  }
}

async function cloneCms() {
  const orgName = '__redacted';
  const repoName = '__redacted';

  const githubAccessToken = config.github.accessToken;
  const cloneUrl = `https://${githubAccessToken}@github.com/${orgName}/${repoName}.git`;

  try {
    await execAsync(`git config submodule.${repoName}.url "${cloneUrl}"`);
    await execAsync('git submodule update --init --recursive');
    logger.info('cms cloned successfully.');
  } catch (err) {
    logger.error('failed to clone cms.', err);
  }
}

async function main() {
  await cleanCms();
  await cloneCms();
}

main();

import config from '../src/config';
import { exec } from 'child_process';
import fs from 'fs';
import { logger } from '../src/modules/logging';
import { promisify } from 'util';

const execAsync = promisify(exec);

async function cleanCms() {
  const cmsPath = './cms';

  if (fs.existsSync(cmsPath)) {
    try {
      await fs.promises.rm(cmsPath, { recursive: true, force: true });
      logger.info('cms cleaned successfully.');
    } catch (err) {
      logger.error('error cleaning cms', err);
    }
  }
}

async function cloneCms() {
  const orgName = '__redacted';
  const repoName = '__redacted';

  const githubAccessToken = config.github.accessToken;
  const cloneUrl = `https://${githubAccessToken}@github.com/${orgName}/${repoName}.git`;

  try {
    await execAsync(`git config submodule.${repoName}.url "${cloneUrl}"`);
    await execAsync('git submodule update --init --recursive');
    logger.info('cms cloned successfully.');
  } catch (err) {
    logger.error('failed to clone cms.', err);
  }
}

async function main() {
  await cleanCms();
  await cloneCms();
}

main();

Solution:

adding a await execAsync('git init'); as first command

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7 Replies

Percy•13mo ago

Project ID: dcbbcdb7-cd29-4c80-9a47-6a3f66851471

Brody•13mo ago

as far as I know, the .git folder is not included in the repo

bephremOP•13mo ago

maybe I need to run git init pretty sure if I just ran a normal git clone everything works (which makes sense considering that doesn't assume an initialized git repository) will try this - I originally thought that the git binary just wasn't there

Brody•13mo ago

git clone will pull from a repo and make the .git folder and git init will initialize a .git folder

bephremOP•13mo ago

right yes git init worked - command now runs

Solution

bephrem•13mo ago

adding a await execAsync('git init'); as first command

bephremOP•13mo ago

updated (had to run git submodule add for the submodule to pull, odd because .gitmodules should be in the file tree, but I don't think git init pulls that data into the fresh .git folder's data)

async function cloneCms() {
  const orgName = '__redacted';
  const repoName = 'cms';
  const submodulePath = repoName;

  const githubAccessToken = config.github.accessToken;
  const cloneUrl = `https://${githubAccessToken}@github.com/${orgName}/${repoName}.git`;

  try {
    if (config.isProduction) {
      await execAsync('git init');
      await execAsync(`git submodule add ${cloneUrl} ${submodulePath}`);
    }

    await execAsync('git submodule update --init --recursive');

    logger.info('cms cloned successfully.');
  } catch (err) {
    logger.error('failed to clone cms.', err);
  }
}

async function cloneCms() {
  const orgName = '__redacted';
  const repoName = 'cms';
  const submodulePath = repoName;

  const githubAccessToken = config.github.accessToken;
  const cloneUrl = `https://${githubAccessToken}@github.com/${orgName}/${repoName}.git`;

  try {
    if (config.isProduction) {
      await execAsync('git init');
      await execAsync(`git submodule add ${cloneUrl} ${submodulePath}`);
    }

    await execAsync('git submodule update --init --recursive');

    logger.info('cms cloned successfully.');
  } catch (err) {
    logger.error('failed to clone cms.', err);
  }
}

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