Question

I am writing a psake script. One of the tasks pulls files from a Github-hosted repository:

Framework "4.0"
$ErrorActionPreference = "stop"

formatTaskName "`n##------ {0} ------##`n"

task DeployToLocalDevelopmentEnvironment {
    # other commands

    exec { git pull origin somebranch } # this is the line that fails

    # other commands
}

---

pull command fails with the following message:

From https://github.com/account_name/project_name

It looks like the rest of the error message gets cut off somewhere, so I can’t actually get the cause of the problem.

Any thoughts on what how I can view the full error message?

Answer 1

Still no idea why is happening, but I have found a work-around:

$processStartInfo = new-object system.diagnostics.processStartInfo
$processStartInfo.workingDirectory = (get-location).path
$processStartInfo.fileName = "git"
$processStartInfo.arguments = "pull origin $branch_name"
$processStartInfo.useShellExecute = $false

$process = [system.diagnostics.process]::start($processStartInfo);
$process.waitForExit();

I have a theory, but can’t prove it (yet):

• There are three potential causes: powershell, psake, git
• I was able to rule-out psake by calling git directly from powershell
• All other command-line tools output messages correctly when called from PowerShell, so that rules-out PowerShell
• I suspect the issue is with how git outputs messages to the console
• The next step is to contact PowerShell team to find a proper solution. What’s the best way to do that?