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Async operations with nodegit on electron not working

I am working on a project using electron and nodegit, and I recently updated my dependencies. After solving the compatibility issues, I found two versions of nodegit and electron that work. But upon testing it, I found that async nodegit operations fail, while the synchronous ones work fine. Here's a code example that does not work:

const pathToRepo = require('path').resolve(path);
Git.Repository.open(pathToRepo)
.then((repo) => {
  console.log(repo);
})
.catch( (err) => {
  console.log(err);
});

Upon executing it, the promise returns an error which is caught by the catch block, and upon outputting the value on the console it simple displays true, and gives no additional information.

Also, I had updated node from 5 to 6.3 before updating my dependencies.

Previous:

electron-prebuilt: 0.37.8
nodegit: 0.13.0

After updating:

electron-prebuilt: 1.2.1
nodegit: 0.14.1

EDIT: Solved by adding an npm script: 

"rebuild": "npm rebuild --runtime=electron --target=1.2.1 disturl=https://atom.io/download/atom-shell --build-from-source",

and running npm run rebuild.

Solution

  • nodegit contains a native NodeJS module, native modules must be rebuilt to target the Electron version you use them with. Instructions for rebuilding native modules can be found at http://electron.atom.io/docs/tutorial/using-native-node-modules/