Git Flow Fails on 10.8

[ellisio]

Hey guys,

I just installed DP3 of OS-X 10.8 and tried to install Git Flow. Here is the output I received:

$ brew install git-flow
==> Cloning https://github.com/nvie/gitflow.git
Cloning into '/Library/Caches/Homebrew/git-flow--git'...
remote: Counting objects: 47, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (41/41), done.
remote: Total 47 (delta 19), reused 22 (delta 3)
Unpacking objects: 100% (47/47), done.
==> Checking out tag 0.4.1
error: pathspec '0.4.1' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Error: Failure while executing: git checkout -q 0.4.1

To fix this I had to cd into /Library/Caches/Homebrew/git-flow--git and run git fetch origin --all and then re-run brew install git-flow.

Git Version (installed via brew install git): 1.7.10

Let me know if I can provide you with any more information.

[jacknagel]

The GitDownloadStrategy has some known issues, and though I hadn't seen it fail this way before, I can reproduce it. I started work on fixing these issues a few days ago, but I haven't had a chance to get back to it.

(Note: if one runs brew install git-flow again immediately after it fails like this, it will work, as it will fetch the whole history and download tags when updating existing clones).

[jacknagel]

I have a fix for this; will push it for review when GitHub's outage is resolved.