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copied!<p>I have been trying to use the ruby-git gem to make commits etc from with in a ruby script however the method to check the current status always throws an error. My understanding is that this code, although not doing too much, should be valid. </p> <pre><code>#gem install git require 'rubygems' require 'git' g = Git.init g.status </code></pre> <p>but it returns:</p> <blockquote> <p>Git::GitExecuteError: git diff-index "HEAD" 2>&1:fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': >unknown revision or path not in the working tree.<br> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions<br> from /Users/X/bin/ruby-ee-1.8.7/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-1.2.5/lib/git/lib.rb:700:in <code>command'<br> from /Users/X/bin/ruby-ee-1.8.7/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-1.2.5/lib/git/lib.rb:672:in</code>command_lines'<br> from /Users/X/bin/ruby-ee-1.8.7/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-1.2.5/lib/git/lib.rb:287:in <code>diff_index'<br> from /Users/X/bin/ruby-ee-1.8.7/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-1.2.5/lib/git/status.rb:99:in</code>construct_status'<br> from /Users/X/bin/ruby-ee-1.8.7/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-1.2.5/lib/git/status.rb:8:in <code>initialize'<br> from /Users/X/bin/ruby-ee-1.8.7/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-1.2.5/lib/git/base.rb:175:in</code>new'<br> from /Users/X/bin/ruby-ee-1.8.7/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/git-1.2.5/lib/git/base.rb:175:in `status'<br> from (irb):5 </p> </blockquote> <p>Does any one have examples of how to get the current git status within ruby (using ruby-git)?</p> <p>Pages I have looked at:<br> <a href="http://rubygems.org/gems/git" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><a href="http://rubygems.org/gems/git" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://rubygems.org/gems/git</a></a><br> <a href="http://git.rubyforge.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><a href="http://git.rubyforge.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://git.rubyforge.org/</a></a></p> <p>Thanks</p>

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