Sometimes, when updating a batch change that has already been applied, the cached diff cannot be applied:
sfllaw@hostname:~$ src batch apply -v -f batch-changes.yaml
✅ Parsing batch spec
✅ Resolving namespace
✅ Preparing container images ██████████████████████████████████████████████
🚧 Workspace creator: bind
✅ Set workspace type
✅ Resolved 137 repositories
✅ Found 137 workspaces with steps to execute
✅ Found 0 cached changeset specs; 137 tasks need to be executed
✅ Executing... (137/137, 24 errored) ██████████████████████████████████████
❌ 24 errors:
github.com/sfllaw/repo:
getting changed files in step: applying cached diff: 'git apply -p0 /home/sfllaw/.cache/sourcegraph/batch/bind-workspace-test-1611338046' failed: error: unrecognized input: exit status 128
Log: /tmp/changeset-github.com-sfllaw-repo-5e3e8f2c3e2780ec35240790d1971b2c0b7ed9b0.3325954318.log
If we look into the cache, we see that the diff is empty!
sfllaw@hostname:~/.cache/sourcegraph/batch$ jq -C . < github.com-sfllaw-repo-5e3e8f2c3e2780ec35240790d1971b2c0b7ed9b0/j7ViTNOX3Gkk_8XnX-MbZQ.json
{
"diff": "",
"changedFiles": {
"modified": null,
"added": null,
"deleted": null,
"renamed": null
},
"outputs": {},
"path": ""
}This is exactly the behaviour you’d expect from an empty patch:
sfllaw@hostname:~/src/repo$ echo -n '' > patch
sfllaw@hostname:~/src/repo$ git apply -p0 patch
error: unrecognized input
sfllaw@hostname:~/src/repo$ echo $?
128
Sometimes, when updating a batch change that has already been applied, the cached diff cannot be applied:
If we look into the cache, we see that the diff is empty!
This is exactly the behaviour you’d expect from an empty patch: