git log -G fails with "cannot spawn astextplain: No such file or directory" error

[Radrik5]

I use Git 2.5.3 64 bit on Windows 7.

MCVE:

Projects $ git clone [email protected]:Radrik5/test-git-log-g.git
Cloning into 'test-git-log-g'...
remote: Counting objects: 6, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 6 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

Projects $ cd test-git-log-g/

test-git-log-g $ GIT_TRACE=1 git log -GIniFileFontSection -p
20:03:40.055339 git.c:348               trace: built-in: git 'log' '-GIniFileFontSection' '-p'
20:03:40.057339 run-command.c:335       trace: run_command: 'less'
20:03:40.059339 run-command.c:335       trace: run_command: 'astextplain' 'C:/Users/Radrik5/AppData/Local/Temp/iA3cU9_Document.rtf'
error: cannot spawn astextplain: No such file or directory
fatal: unable to read files to diff

[Radrik5]

astextplain is absent in C:\Program Files\Git and subfolders.

[rimrul]

astextplain should be in /mingw32/bin or /mingw64/bin. How did you install your Git? Are you using the 32bit or the 64bit version? What options did you chose when installing? Did you run a clean install or an upgrade?

[dscho]

astextplain should be in /mingw32/bin or /mingw64/bin

It should actually be in /usr/bin/...

It looks a little bit different here:

$ git clone https://github.com/Radrik5/test-git-log-g
Cloning into 'test-git-log-g'...
remote: Counting objects: 6, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 6 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

me@work MINGW64 ~
$ cd test-git-log-g/

me@work MINGW64 ~/test-git-log-g (master)
$ GIT_TRACE=1 git log -GIniFileFontSection -p
20:23:16.337925 git.c:348               trace: built-in: git 'log' '-GIniFileFontSection' '-p'
20:23:16.344769 run-command.c:335       trace: run_command: 'less'
20:23:16.387786 run-command.c:335       trace: run_command: 'astextplain' 'C:/Users/me/AppData/Local/Temp/6djQ18_Document.rtf'

me@work MINGW64 ~/test-git-log-g (master)
$ echo $?
0

[dscho]

... and

$ which astextplain
/usr/bin/astextplain

[dscho]

Ah, oops. I tested with a test installer. And when I dug deeper, it looked as if a bogus git-extra-1.1.75 was installed at the time the installer was built (it should have been git-extra-1.1.74, so I assume that pacman did not update the package because it thought that would have been a downgrade).

In any case, I verified that the next installer will contain astextplain.

[Radrik5]

Release 2.5.3 32 bit does contain astextplain but release 2.5.3 64 bit doesn't.

[dscho]

Yep, that was my finding, too. It was simply an oversight that a package I built during the development process of git-extra was marked with a higher version number than it should have had (this happens when I add fixup! commits, build for testing, and then rebase: the number of commits touching the git-extra/ directory is used as last part of the version number).

All is well with Git for Windows 2.6.0.

[Radrik5]

Yes, I can confirm that release 2.6.0 64 bit contains astextplain and git log -G works fine with .rtf files.

Thank you!