Grgit instance is null on Windows.

[Angular-Angel]

So I'm using the grgit gradle plugin to download stuff for my build script, right? And it works fine on Linux, for me and another person. But, when my friend runs it on Windows, he gets:

Execution failed for task ':buildModuleDevilUtil'.
> Cannot invoke method open() on null object

Which I'm pretty sure corresponds to line 34, where I go: def repo = grgit.open(dir: moduleDir).

Error Log.txt

[SmashMaster]

[ajoberstar]

The grgit variable is an instance of Grgit for the git repo the current Gradle project is inside. It will be null if it can't find a git repo in the Gradle project dir or one of its parents. Perhaps the Windows user has a copy of the source, but not in a Git repo.

However, the broader issue is that grgit.open() isn't an intended way to open a repository. You should instead be using it as a static method: Grgit.open(). I assume you were mislead by the documentation which provides the wrong example, so I'll fix that.

So the two changes would be:

• Add an import for org.ajoberstar.grgit.Grgit
• Change the call to use Grgit.open() instead of grgit.open()

[Angular-Angel]

Ah, nice! Okay, Grgit works for me now. Thank you!