Version check doesnt handle none git installations

We are packaging git as rpm ourself for opensuse.

In the help screen we get: "GitLab 7.10.0.pre fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git"

Is there any file we can provide which can hold the git revision for this?

This has been fixed with the external version checker.

Status changed to closed

still reproducable in master:

via "/help"

GitLab Community Edition 8.1.0.pre fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /srv) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). 

rev gitlab-foss@329e067f

Status changed to reopened

while we are at it ... could we define a file where I can provide the information like the git revision? then i could ship that file as part of the package and provide the information it would usually fetch from git.

@dzaporozhets

Any reason why your GitLab directory is not git repo?

I build an RPM for gitlab-ce. no need to ship the whole git history to every deployment host.

Same problem with Omnibus installation when a I run /opt/gitlab/bin/gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create.

It outputs fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git before doing the anyway.

Added ~65372 label

Any updates on this?

Status changed to closed

Closing due to lack of response.

on "/help"

"GitLab Community Edition 8.10.0-pre fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /srv) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set)."

Verified with gitlab-ce-8.10.0~git857.7303de91.

I would be happy if we could define a file like GITLAB_CE_VERSION which would be read if it exists and only the fallback code is using git. I could create that file during my rpm build then and we would get a proper versioned number displayed without shipping the ".git/" tree.

Status changed to reopened

moved from gitlab-foss#1416 (moved)

mentioned in commit b5fdb458

mentioned in commit 8cb65b55