On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 10:47 AM TakeV via Bug reports for GNU Guix
<bug-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> I set up a git repo which uses git-crypt a while back, however it seems
> to have broken in the time between then and now.
>
> Looking into how git-crypt seems to handle things; running the initial
> init causes the full path to the git-crypt binary to be written to the
> git config file (.git/config) as a filter.
>
> If one has created a repo using git-crypt, and some time later runs guix
> gc, then the old path to the git-crypt binary likely will be deleted,
> causing git-crypt to break, as it is unable to locate the binary.
>
> One workaround could be running git-crypt in a shell, and registering it
> as a garbage collector root so that the original git-crypt install is
> preserved, but that seems like it would not be an optimal long term fix.
> Updating the config file by hand also seems to fix the issue, though
> that route is similarly a short term fix.
I am not seeing any changes or updates to the git-crypt package since
this issue was opened, but I am also not seeing the full path to the
git-crypt binary when I "git init" and "git-crypt init" a new repo:
$ cat .git/config
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
[filter "git-crypt"]
smudge = \"git-crypt\" smudge
clean = \"git-crypt\" clean
required = true
[diff "git-crypt"]
textconv = \"git-crypt\" diff
