synx: Breaks git after running

After running synx, the .git folder seems to get destroyed. It is still there, but git does not recognize it as such. I do not get any error messages during the run.

This is a rough distribution of our product, as seen in XCode:

touchapp/   (This is the project file)
    a.bundle
    b.bundle

    Localizable.strings/
        LanguageA.strings (Base)
        LanguageB.strings
        LanguageC.strings

    Images/
        (Just a bunch of images)

    touch/
        Images.xcassets (Launch images, application icons and whatnot)
        SomeGroupWithSomeCode/
            code.h
            code.m
            SubgroupWithSomeMoreCode/
                subcode.h
                subcode.m
        SomeGroupWithSomeMoreCode/
             morecode.h
             morecode.m

    Libraries/
        (A number of git submodules, but also some none libraries and some other external code files)
        (Some have their own .xcodeproj, some have subprojects of their own as well)
    Frameworks/
    Products/

This is roughly how it is reflected in filesystem:

touchapp/
    .git/
    .gitignore
    .gitmodules
    touch.xcodeproj/
    touch/
        LibraryA/
            LibraryA.xcodeproj/
            somecodefromlibrary.h
            somecodefromlibrary.m
        LibraryB/
            (Basically the same as Library A)
        LibraryC/
            libraryheaders.h
            somecode.c
        LanguageA.lproj/
            Localizable.strings
        LanguageB.lproj/
            Localizable.strings
        LanguageC.lproj/
            Localizable.strings
    Images/
    Inline Icons/
    CodeFromExternalParty/
        somecode.h
        somecode.m
    Animation/
    image1.png
    image2.png (and so on for about 50 times)

About this issue

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State: open
Created 9 years ago
Comments: 22 (6 by maintainers)

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Is this project still maintained? This is still an issue.

MattMorgis on Jan 4, 2017

Since I don’t know Ruby, I opted to fix these issues using a shell script. You can grab a copy here:

https://gist.github.com/noordawod/ea1a5fc1fb5654fcba509f6e5862a4eb

noordawod on Jul 1, 2017

Managed to get this to reproduce reliably, after a particularly terrifying afternoon.

Works with XCode Version 7.2 (7C68)

Create a new project (I used the template for iOS Single View Application)
Make it into a git repo
Create a storyboard file in the project
Remove the storyboard file reference from XCode
Move the storyboard file into a subfolder at the same level as the .xcodeproj (the name does not appear to matter. I got this bug because I had a storyboard in a “Base.lproj” folder but the bug can be reproduced with a name like “Potato” as well
Drag the storyboard file back into XCode, and don’t copy it
git status --> A-OK 👌
synx projectname.xcodeproj
git status --> EVERYTHING BURNS 🌏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💀💀💀💀💀💀

@nunogoncalves @Mark2xv I guess it’s been a long time since you guys have had this problem, but just FYI it seemed to work for me after this: I moved the offending files out of the project structure, removed references in XCode, then dragged them into the project and let xcode put them wherever it wants.

jonzhan on Jan 5, 2016