GitHub Desktop

[michaeldtaylor]

This probably isn't the place, but since upgrading GitHub Desktop (Windows) my PowerShell Git sessions in ConEmu is no longer working. The problem seems to be that there is no folder:

LocalAppData\GitHub\PoshGit_f71b6366513fdb40f2126bf1d303ebd749cac2d2

The GitHub shell.ps1 file still references this, but the folder isn't there.

$env:github_posh_git = Resolve-Path "$env:LocalAppData\GitHub\PoshGit_f71b6366513fdb40f2126bf1d303ebd749cac2d2"

My ConEmu console was set to:

powershell -noexit -command Set-ExecutionPolicy bypass;.$env:LocalAppData\GitHub\shell.ps1;.$env:github_posh_git\profile.example.ps1 -new_console:a:C:\Projects\ -new_console:d:C:\Projects\

I've tried reinstalling GitHub Desktop but no folder or equivalent PoshGit folder has been recreated,

Any idea on how to fix this?

[michaeldtaylor]

Ok, well I still have no idea why the problem occurred (has GitHub Desktop removed PoshGit?) but for now I fixed it by recreating the folder PoshGit_f71b6366513fdb40f2126bf1d303ebd749cac2d2 and cloning master and copying the files to there. I now have a weird new three bar equals symbol on the command line prompt, but apart from that everything seems to be working.

[shiftkey]

@michaeldtaylor which OS version are you running? I'm looking into a Win7-specific issue, and I'm curious if that overlaps with what you're seeing...

[michaeldtaylor]

Windows 10 - I just did the automatic update in GitHub Desktop. Hadn't opened it for a while!

[shiftkey]

@michaeldtaylor

I now have a weird new three bar equals symbol on the command line prompt, but apart from that everything seems to be working.

That's one of the new features in Posh-Git #202

Not sure why the new folder wouldn't be recreated on update, but I'll keep an eye out for other cases like that.

[shiftkey]

@michaeldtaylor @dahlbyk this issue seems to be GitHub Desktop specific, rather than Posh-Git itself

[dahlbyk]

this issue seems to be GitHub Desktop specific, rather than Posh-Git itself

Feel free to reopen if this proves not to be the case.

[vgrigoriu]

Same thing happened to me, PoshGit_a2be688889e1b24632e83adccd9b2a44b91d655b dissapeared. I even uninstalled Github Desktop, deleted $env:LocalAppData\GitHub\ and re-installed it, and it's not there.

[dahlbyk]

@vgrigoriu can you drop a note to support@github.com with your debug log (Settings > About > Open debug log)?

[vgrigoriu]

First of all, sorry for posting here, I realised just after hitting Send that this was obviously a Github Desktop issue, not a posh-git one. Second, I deleted everything and re-installed, and on first run of Github Desktop PoshGit appeared, so problem solved.