error: 'path' is outside repository

[that1guy]

error: 'path' is outside repository

[stephenlacy]

Git is only able to track files in it's working tree, where the .git folder exists.
The workaround is to modify the working directory's: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5283262/what-is-git-work-tree-why-have-i-never-needed-to-set-this-env-var-why-now

[that1guy]

There is already a .git folder in the directory the files are being copied into. For example I could run all my gulp tasks (except git add/push)... and then I could manually change into this directory add/push everything. Would this mean that gulp-git could do the same? Thanks for quick reply!

[stephenlacy]

Ah, so you would want to change the gulp cwd: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/specifying-a-cwd.md

And or git.add({cwd:'../hts_node_prod/*'})
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[that1guy]

This makes sense. Sorry to be bother, but I'm still racking my brain here:

[22:37:57] Starting 'move'...
[22:37:58] Finished 'move' after 625 ms
[22:37:58] Starting 'minify-css'...
[22:37:58] Finished 'minify-css' after 112 ms
[22:37:58] Starting 'minify-js'...
[22:37:59] Finished 'minify-js' after 673 ms
[22:37:59] Starting 'add'...
[22:37:59] 'add' errored after 17 ms
[22:37:59] Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)
[22:37:59]  

var gulp = require('gulp')
, minifyCss = require("gulp-minify-css")
, uglify = require("gulp-uglify")
, git = require('gulp-git');



var filesToMove = [
        './.gitignore',
        './.ebextensions/**/*.*',
        './api/**/*.*',
        './app/**/*.*',
        './config/**/*.*',
        './email_templates/**/*.*',
        './public/**/*.*',
        './package.json',
        './server.js'
    ];



//move necessary files into the _deploy dir
gulp.task('move', function(cb){
  // the base option sets the relative root for the set of files,
  // preserving the folder structure
  var stream = gulp.src(filesToMove, { base: './' })
      .pipe(gulp.dest('../hts_node_prod'));
  return stream;
});




//minify css
gulp.task('minify-css', ['move'], function (cb) {
    var stream = gulp.src('../hts_node_prod/public/css/*.css') // path to your file.
        .pipe(minifyCss())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('../hts_node_prod/public/css/'));
    return stream;
});


//minify js
gulp.task('minify-js', ['minify-css'], function (cb) {

    var stream = gulp.src('../hts_node_prod/public/modules/**/*.js') // path to your files
        .pipe(uglify({compress: {drop_console: true }}))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('../hts_node_prod/public/modules/'));
    return stream;
});


// Run git add
// src is the file(s) to add (or ./*)
gulp.task('add', ['minify-js'], function(cb){

    //ERRORS HERE**********

    var stream = gulp.src('../hts_node_prod/*')
        .pipe(git.add({cwd:'../hts_node_prod/*'}));
    return stream
});



// Run git commit
// src are the files to commit (or ./*)
gulp.task('commit', ['add'], function(cb){

    var timestamp = new Date().getTime();

    console.log(timestamp);

    var stream = gulp.src('../hts_node_prod/*')
        .pipe(git.commit(""+timestamp+"", {cwd:'../hts_node_prod/*'}));
    return stream
});



// push all new commits to production bitbucket
gulp.task('push', ['commit'], function(){
    git.push('origin', 'master', function (err) {
        if (err) throw err;
    });
});


gulp.task('default', ['push']);

[stephenlacy]

Add the CWD to the gulp.src as well. https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/specifying-a-cwd.md

[that1guy]

Thank you! Solved.

// Run git add
// src is the file(s) to add (or ./*)
gulp.task('add', ['minify-js'], function(cb){

    var stream = gulp.src('./*', {cwd:'/Library/Webserver/Documents/hts_node_prod/'})
        .pipe(git.add({cwd:'/Library/Webserver/Documents/hts_node_prod/'}));
    return stream
});



// Run git commit with options
gulp.task('commit', ['add'], function(cb){
    var stream = gulp.src('./*', {cwd:'/Library/Webserver/Documents/hts_node_prod/'})
        .pipe(git.commit('gulp commit', {cwd:'/Library/Webserver/Documents/hts_node_prod/'}));
    return stream
});



// push all new commits to production bitbucket
gulp.task('push', ['commit'], function(cb){
    var stream = gulp.src('./*', {cwd:'/Library/Webserver/Documents/hts_node_prod/'})
        .pipe(git.push('origin', 'master', {cwd:'/Library/Webserver/Documents/hts_node_prod/'}, function (err) {
            if (err) throw err;
        }));
    return stream
});

[stephenlacy]

Excellent!
I will close this now. If you would like you could send a PR with an example to the examples folder.