Problem with XAMPP-no Git repository detected

@felix and @cmonster,

Can you please test out the version downloadable here and let me know if that resolves the issue?

I tested quickly on Windows 8.1 and it’s working for me.

Just tried it and I’m still getting the message that there isn’t a git repository; it’s there.

I’m running Windows 7 (64-bit) and WP 4.1.1.

I typically use Atlassian’s SourceTree to manage my repositories in a DesktopServer local environment, hopefully there isn’t a conflict there.

@cmonster,

This looks like a seperate issue from the one above. Could you please open a new thread with a paste of the debug info in the “Help” tab in the Revisr settings so we can get this resolved for you? It looks like an easy fix, but which easy fix it is depends on what that debug tab is saying.

Hei there.
running right now some tests.
First thing I noticed: When setting the mysql path to
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\
it is replaced by this when clicking on save:
C:\\xampp\\mysql\\bin\
I was not able to change the path back to how it was.

So I tried to back up my database with this path, and it was processing the request for more than 5 minutes (with the spinner spinning) until I aborted it (by actually stopping and restarting apache)

In the error log of apache I found many lines like this:
‘mysqldump’ n?o ? reconhecido como um comando interno
ou externo, um programa oper?vel ou um arquivo em lotes.
(That means that the mysqldumb commando was not found.)(My system is set to portuguese)

I also found the following entry in the error log, right under many of the previous error:
fatal: ” is not a valid tag name.

Right now, after another try to backup the database, revisr is again stuck in the “processing request” state since more than 5 minutes and this is the last entry in the error.log:

fatal: ambiguous argument ‘origin/Felix_multisite..Felix_multisite’: unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use ‘–‘ to separate paths from revisions, like this:
‘git <command> [<revision>…] — [<file>…]’

Felix_multisite is my current working branch.

As a sitenote, doing commits is working just fine, only the database can not be backed up locally…

Hope this gives some more insight and if you need any more help/testing/error logs, just tell me…

Cheers,
Felix

ps. Thx for the continous trials to resolve the problem!

pps. I need to add, that I copied the hole wordpress installation into an other folder. I can imagine that revisr might got confused during the process? Whats the best way of completely reinstalling the plugin? Do you think that might help?

Hi Felix,

Thanks a lot for testing that out and continuing to help debug the issue.

The error logs make sense and confirm it’s an issue with the path being saved. I will be looking into this further and will keep you posted.

Regarding moving Revisr, as long as the .git/config looks OK and any paths are updated to use the new path, everything should work well. Revisr uses the .git/config for a lot of configuration options because that stuff is environment dependent and not wanted in version control anyway.

The only exception would be if you’re using the REVISR_GIT_DIR constant introduced in 1.9, then that would need to be updated as well.

Hi Felix,

I pushed out an update that should resolve the issue with saving the MySQL Path or Revisr Webhook URL on Windows. The issue was that escapeshellarg handles things very differently on Windows than it does on UNIX-based systems.

Now, you should be able to update both fields without any issues.

I’m marking this topic as resolved as I was able to both replicate the issue you were having and confirmed that the latest release fixed the issue, but feel free to open up another thread if you run into any further issues or have any questions.

Thanks!

Hello Expanded Fronts,

I can confirm that the path to mysql and the webhook are now saved correctly.
I also can tell that with a incorrect webhook url, the plugin causes WP to crash/getting stuck. Took me some time and many XAMPP reboots to figure that this was causing the problem.

I can, however, still not backup my database locally. I only see: “Error backing up the database.”
In the help tab its written that the mysql path could not be found. I have set it to C:\xampp\mysql\bin but it is not working.

Not sure where to search the problem, using define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); does not give anything related to revisr…

At least we’re getting closer ??

Thanks for the tip on the webhook URL, I will look into that. Currently it’s set to timeout on 30 seconds, maybe that could have exceeded XAMP’s timeout? I could also switch it to be non-blocking.

Can you confirm the existence of C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqldump? Or is there only C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql?

hehehe, yes we are getting there ??

might be that it took 30 seconds to timeout, but it felt wayyy more.

The mysqldump.exe is here:
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqldump.exe

Hi,

This should be fixed in the latest release, which had some additional tweaks to get things running properly on Windows.

Also, I’ve added support for database backups using native WordPress functions, which could be a lot easier as long as your database isn’t incredibly large.