`nimble install docopt` not working

[mallochine]

Hey,

Not completely sure if this is an issue, but I used the "nimble install docopt" command, copied from http://howistart.org/posts/nim/1

I got the following error:

[nutanix@guo-dev brainfuck]$ nimble install docopt
Downloading docopt into /tmp/nimble_3085/docopt using git...
Found tags...
Cloning latest tagged version: v0.1
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/nimble_3085/docopt/.git/
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref v0.1
FAILURE: Execution failed with exit code 128

[dom96]

It works for me on Windows. I can also see the v0.1 tag on the Git repo https://github.com/docopt/docopt.nim so I'm not sure what the problem is.

Can you clone that repo manually and checkout v0.1?

[mallochine]

Ah, so I'm actually on Linux...

I took a dive into the nimble source code and this is the exact shell command that is failing:

[nutanix@guo-dev docopt]$ git fetch origin --depth 1 v0.1
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref v0.1

Now if I simply do "git fetch origin", it still doesn't download anything:

[nutanix@guo-dev docopt]$ git fetch origin
remote: Counting objects: 115, done.
remote: Total 115 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 115
Receiving objects: 100% (115/115), 32.25 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (52/52), done.
From git://github.com/docopt/docopt.nim
 * [new branch]      master     -> origin/master
From git://github.com/docopt/docopt.nim
 * [new tag]         v0.1       -> v0.1

[nutanix@guo-dev docopt]$ ls -a
.  ..  .git

[mallochine]

Some more debug:

[nutanix@guo-dev docopt]$ git remote show origin
* remote origin
  Fetch URL: git://github.com/docopt/docopt.nim
  Push  URL: git://github.com/docopt/docopt.nim
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branch:
    master tracked

[nutanix@guo-dev docopt]$ pwd
/tmp/nimble_2349/docopt

[nutanix@guo-dev docopt]$ git --version
git version 1.7.1

[mallochine]

A helpful improvement for future nimble versions would be verbosity information that would ease log collecting as opposed to digging into the source code itself.

[dom96]

What's the version of git that you are using?

On Saturday, 7 March 2015, Alex Guo notifications@github.com wrote:

A helpful improvement for future nimble versions would be verbosity
information that would ease log collecting instead of digging into the
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#105 (comment).

[mallochine]

[nutanix@guo-dev docopt]$ git --version git version 1.7.1Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 13:18:42 -0800
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Subject: Re: [nimble] nimble install docopt not working (#105)

What's the version of git that you are using?

On Saturday, 7 March 2015, Alex Guo notifications@github.com wrote:

A helpful improvement for future nimble versions would be verbosity

information that would ease log collecting instead of digging into the

source code itself.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub

#105 (comment).

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[dom96]

I'm using 1.9.5. Git 1.7.1 is pretty old I think. Can you upgrade?

[mallochine]

Sure. I'm in the process of upgrading my git version. Update the README?

[mallochine]

Looks like git 2.3.2 works. Thanks for your help! Do update the README once you can get to it, or maybe check for that in nimble compilation process?

[dom96]

Unfortunately i'm not sure what the lowest required version actually is.

I'll reopen this as a reminder to add something to the readme.