Hub: pull-request error: not currently on any branch

[DancingQuanta]

My problem: I could not use pull-request at all, I kept getting this error

$ git pull-request -b <user>:master -h DancingQuanta:extra-syntaxes
Aborted: not currently on any branch.

I am on Cygwin with Windows executable hub.

[mislav]

Does it help if you check out any branch in git? Or did you expect it to work while on detached HEAD (fancy git term for "not on any branch")?

[DancingQuanta]

I am not in detached HEAD though.

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[mislav]

Oh, that's odd. Does the current branch show up if you do git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD? Which hub version are you using?

[DancingQuanta]

Here

19:48:40 andre@LAPTOP-V9S562AR:~/.vim/bundle/taskwiki
(extra-syntaxes)
$ git b
* extra-syntaxes
  master
19:48:42 andre@LAPTOP-V9S562AR:~/.vim/bundle/taskwiki
(extra-syntaxes)
$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD
refs/heads/extra-syntaxes
19:49:11 andre@LAPTOP-V9S562AR:~/.vim/bundle/taskwiki
(extra-syntaxes)
$

My prompt already tells me what branch I am on with a (<branch>) after current directory.

[DancingQuanta]

Here is part of the bash code that controls my prompt

# Activate git prompt
GITPROMPT="$HOME/.shell/source.d/git-prompt.sh"
if [ -f $GITPROMPT ]; then
  source $GITPROMPT
  PS1_GIT=${SH_YELLOW}'$(__git_ps1 "\n(%s)")'
else
  PS1_GIT=
fi

[DancingQuanta]

Oh I almost forgot, my hub version is

19:54:51 andre@LAPTOP-V9S562AR:~
$ git --version
git version 2.12.3
hub version 2.3.0-pre9

[mislav]

We had some Windows fixes since, so please try again with the newest hub version!

Closing since we haven't had reports of this since.

[pingmai]

$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD
refs/heads/mybranch
$ hub version
git version 2.17.0
hub version 2.10.0
$ hub pull-request -m "add stuff" -r xyz,abc
Aborted: not currently on any branch.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-10.0 addis 3.0.4(0.338/5/3) 2019-03-16 09:50 x86_64 Cygwin

[mislav]

@pingmai Thank you; this might be related to the fact that you're on Windows but I'm not sure.

Can you tell me the output of cat `git rev-parse -q --git-dir`/HEAD?

[pingmai]

[20541] ping@addis:~/git/prod-01-new-aws-account-creation (ping/update-developer-role=)$ cat git rev-parse -q --git-dir/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/ping/update-developer-role

[mislav]

@pingmai Thank you. I can't tell where the problem is since everything seems good on your end re: currently checked out branch. It looks like you're properly on ping/update-developer-role branch. I have no idea for now why hub would fail with “not currently on any branch” error.

If someone has time to debug on Windows/Cygwin, it would be much appreciated!

[mislav]

I cannot reproduce this with latest hub, Cygwin 3.0.7, and Windows 10.

I'm closing this due to lack of reproducible information. It might also be a problem with Cygwin runtime. Windows users who use hub outside of Cygwin have never reported such a problem.

Please reopen when you have more information about where the bug migth be!

[pingmai]

[18208] ping@XPS8900:~/.../aws/us_east_1_production/lost (ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85=)$ hub pull-request -m "add cx-dvb node #85" -r srspndr,etherops
Aborted: not currently on any branch.
[18209] ping@XPS8900:~/.../aws/us_east_1_production/lost (ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85=)$ hub --version
git version 2.21.0
hub version 2.12.7
[18211] ping@XPS8900:~/.../aws/us_east_1_production/lost (ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85=)$ git status
On branch ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean
[18212] ping@XPS8900:~/.../aws/us_east_1_production/lost (ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85=)$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-10.0 XPS8900 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64 Cygwin
[18213] ping@XPS8900:~/.../aws/us_east_1_production/lost (ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85=)$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD
refs/heads/ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85
[18214] ping@XPS8900:~/.../aws/us_east_1_production/lost (ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85=)$ 

[pingmai]

[18212] ping@XPS8900:~/.../aws/us_east_1_production/lost (ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85=)$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-10.0 XPS8900 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64 Cygwin

[mislav]

@pingmai Thank you for the additional info. I tried to reproduce with the same branch name ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85, thinking it might be because of the # in branch name, but I couldn't reproduce. hub pull-request worked on this branch for me.

To work around your issue for now, pass the --head argument explicitly:

hub pull-request --head='ping/INF-3066.add.dvb.#85' ...

[pingmai]

yup it worked with --head.
it might be related to the length of the directory.

[pingmai]

i am using a bash alias to get around this:
alias pr='hub pull-request --head=git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD'