https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7392-Mike
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Daniel Carrera <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running Julia 0.2.1 and for some reason I can no longer install any
> packages. Here is an example:
>
> julia> Pkg.add("Cosmology")
> ERROR: failed process: Process(`git
> --git-dir=/home/daniel/.julia/.cache/Stats merge-base
> 87d1c8d890962dfcfd0b45b82907464787ac7c64
> 5113ce6044fc554b350ea16f92502f8d6e077a62`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
> in pipeline_error at process.jl:476
> in readbytes at process.jl:430
> in readall at process.jl:437
> in readchomp at git.jl:26
> in installed_version at pkg/read.jl:70
> in installed at pkg/read.jl:121
> in resolve at pkg/entry.jl:316
> in edit at pkg/entry.jl:24
> in add at pkg/entry.jl:44
> in add at pkg/entry.jl:48
> in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
> in cd at file.jl:22
> in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28
> in add at pkg.jl:19
>
>
> It doesn't matter what the package is, the error is always exactly the same,
> down to the exact hash sums in the merge-base line. So it really looks like
> there is something that Git needs to do before I can install anything and it
> looks like it is not doing it. So I tried running that exact git command on
> the terminal but that didn't produce any obvious error message, and it did
> not help the packages install.
>
> Does anyone have any idea?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.