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Description
Describe the bug
gitui
emit errors on some random(?) repo.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Clone anything with Git 2.45+
- Try to invoke
gitui
on it. - See error
$ gitui
invalid path
please run gitui inside of a non-bare git repository
Expected behavior
It should read the path as normal and pop out a TUI.
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Context (please complete the following information):
- OS/Distro + Version: Windows 11 Pro x86_64 Build 10.0.26200.5761 (25H2)
- GitUI Version: gitui 0.27.0 2025-01-14 (99f6967)
- Rust version: Prebuilt on Releases.
Additional context
lazygit
can consume that path just fine.- After trying to clone
gitui
to build locally withrustc
version 1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04), I got
Error: unsupported extension name extensions.refstorage; class=Repository (6)
- Maybe it's
libgit2
error? please look more into it.
- Due to dependent on
git2
,gitui
cant resolvereftable
backend, and that's fine for me.
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