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Hi,

It sounds like Apache is using the wrong environment path to git. Are you able to do commits, etc, from the plugin? Or is it just not saving the git/config?

Let me know, thanks!

I can’t do commits or backups from the plugin. I get “Failed to initialize a new repository. Please make sure that Git is installed on the server and that Revisr has write permissons to the WordPress install” and “Error backing up the database.” It also is unable to write to the config file.

I can, however, commit and push and pull from my code editor and command prompt, but not from the plugin…

When I run ‘which git’ in command line, I get: /usr/local/git/bin/git

Could you create a test php file with the below:

<?php echo exec( ‘which git’ ); ?>

Let me know what it says. Thank you.

Hmm… it returns a blank page.

Would it matter where the main installation of git is on my mac? I had some path trouble when installing and now lives at /usr/local/git/bin/git. A lot of people I’ve seen seem to have it installed at /usr/local/bin/git.

Like I said earlier though, git works faultlessly through command line and my code editor (although I had to define the correct path for the editor to work with git). Let me know if you think revisr might be looking to a default path that isn’t correct on my machine, or something along those lines

Hello,

Since that code isn’t returning anything, it seems that Git is accessible by command line, but not from the browser. Do you have the default install of Git that is included with ‘Command Line Tools’, or did you install myself?

I have no issues on Mac, and the path used in Apache is /usr/bin/git. Revisr doesn’t check for a default path (simply because there are so many possibilities) but it’s becoming clear that this needs to be a user-configurable option like the MySQL path.

Just for testing, you could try hardcoding the path to git into class-revisr-git.php on line 448 and see if that works for you.

This is resolved!

I previously had installed git myself but hadn’t run the included script for setting the path for non-terminal programs. After your help narrowing down the issue I ran the script, rebooted, and all is well!

Thanks for your prompt help and great work with the plugin!

Glad you got it figured out and thanks for the review!

Let me know if you have any feedback after using the plugin further.

I had the same trouble after installing git on my mac from the installer from their website. I found out that you can also fix this by adding
define( 'REVISR_GIT_PATH', '/usr/local/git/bin/git' );
to your wp-config.php file

I’m reporting this here because it took me a long time to figure out how to resolve it and I hope this will help someone else.