🐛 BUG: Initializing project with git fails

[cobyge]

What version of Wrangler are you using?

2.0.9

What operating system are you using?

WSL Ubuntu 20.04.4

Describe the Bug

When I try to create a new project with git initialization, I get an error as show below.
Git version 2.25.1 (Latest for Ubuntu 20.04.4)

➜ wrangler init testproj
 ⛅️ wrangler 2.0.9
-------------------
Using npm as package manager.
✨ Created testproj/wrangler.toml
Would you like to use git to manage this Worker? (y/n)

✘ [ERROR] Command failed with exit code 128: git branch -m main

  error: refname refs/heads/master not found
  fatal: Branch rename failed


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➜  ~ git --version
git version 2.25.1

➜  cd testproj
➜  git status
On branch master

No commits yet

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
        wrangler.toml

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

[petebacondarwin]

Thanks for the issue report @cobyge - this is really strange since it is saying that it cannot find the master branch in order to rename it but then it is on the master branch... I'll try to reproduce it myself. Do you know if this happens on other OSes?

[sunilhari]

I have read over the internet that git branch -m main works only when you have initial commit .( Although this is not the behaviour in my system). Ref : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66673759/git-branch-m-main

I was wondering instead of moving/renaming the branch by default ( here we are also making assumption that branch is not named as main by default) why don't we tell to create branch main by default when initializing the repo

So instead of

 await execa("git", ["init"], {
    cwd: creationDirectory,
   });

why dont we use

 await execa("git", ["init" ,"-b","main"], {
    cwd: creationDirectory,
   });

and get rid of

 await execa("git", ["branch", "-m", "main"], {
            cwd: creationDirectory,
          });

[petebacondarwin]

We recently moved away from init -b main because of a lack of support in older versions of git.
It seems this new approach is not flawless either.

From what I read, as long as we create an initial commit then we would be safe to rename the branch.
This actually seems like a sensible thing to do in any case - i.e. commit the first set up of code generated by wrangler init.

[sunilhari]

Okay got it.So the idea would be to commit the initial files that get generated likewrangler.toml
Shall I sent a PR making above changes. a commit right after git init?