gitHistoryVSCode: Error when 'View file contents'

Thanks for your excellent work.

There is a problem when I try to view one of the history file contents. It worked before. I am not sure when this problem started because I don’t use this command for a long time. My laptop and desktop have the same problem. The output is

git rev-parse --show-toplevel (completed in 0.001s) {"stack":"Error: spawn C:/Program Files/Git/bin/git ENOENT\n\tat exports._errnoException (util.js:1050:11)\n\tat Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:193:32)\n\tat onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:367:16)\n\tat _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:80:11)\n\tat process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)","message":"spawn C:/Program Files/Git/bin/git ENOENT","code":"ENOENT","errno":"ENOENT","syscall":"spawn C:/Program Files/Git/bin/git","path":"C:/Program Files/Git/bin/git","spawnargs":["rev-parse","--show-toplevel"]} git rev-parse --show-toplevel (completed in 0.002s)

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Created 6 years ago
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Having the same issue, “View file contents” does nothing

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Sevyls on Jun 15, 2018

Me too:

OS: Windows 10
Git: 2.18.0.windows.1
VSCode: 1.25.1
Git History: 0.4.2

For some reason, when trying to open history of any file, it appends the drive letter C:/ to the correct path (I have my project on drive D:) so it ends being C:/d:/path/to/file.ext

afliw on Jul 22, 2018

@Mrneet I’ve made a fix package. You can use it until @DonJayamanne merge my pr.

liximomo on Aug 21, 2018

There are other issues.

Clicking “Compare against workspace file” get error

Clicking “Compare against previous version” and nothing happens.

ver. 5.8.2, Windows 10

Mrneet on Aug 17, 2018

I am getting the same error. It seems that when the extension submit the command, it builds wrong the path to the file . In the git log I see the following:

git log --pretty=oneline b0859fbc3bedf5b68bf21af1f071ac614b053206^1 -n 1 – …....\c:\tomer\projects\CellXM\server\controllers\cm\auditController.js (completed in 0.096s) fatal: …....\c:\tomer\projects\CellXM\server\controllers\cm\auditController.js: ‘…....\c:\tomer\projects\CellXM\server\controllers\cm\auditController.js’ is outside repository

git show b0859fbc3bedf5b68bf21af1f071ac614b053206:…/…/…/c:/tomer/projects/CellXM/server/controllers/cm/auditController.js (completed in 0.099s) fatal: ‘…/…/…/c:/tomer/projects/CellXM/server/controllers/cm/auditController.js’ is outside repository

When I am using this plugin in VS Code on a mac it works fine - so I believe it’s something to do with how Windows files are addressed…

tomercagan on Jul 29, 2018