Could not find any SCM named git

Friday October 10, 2008 at 2:55am

I have been wrestling with capistrano and git, when I ran the following I got an error:

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$ cap deploy:check
could not find any SCM named `git'

I ran ‘which git’ by hand on both my local box and remote box.

on the remote box:

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$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git

on the local box:

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$ which git
/usr/local/git/bin//git

not sure what the issue was, but I tried to set the following in my deploy.rb without success:

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set :local_scm_command, "/usr/local/git/bin/git"
set :scm_command, "/usr/local/bin/git"

ultimately, my fix was to uninstall and reinstall git on my local machine.

now on the local box:

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$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git

now

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$ cap deploy:check
You appear to have all necessary dependencies installed

Reader Discussion

Kyle

Saturday December 06, 2008 at 4:33am

I came across this same problem, how exactly did you uninstall git?

brian

Monday December 08, 2008 at 12:59am

I don’t recall what I did. However, I imagine I ran rm-rf /usr/local/git on my local box.

Phil

Monday December 29, 2008 at 4:47am

I had this problem on a clean Leopard install that had capistrano 2.1.0. Once I updated to 2.5.3 it worked fine!

Andrew Degenhardt

Thursday January 15, 2009 at 1:29am

I also had this problem on clean install of Leopard, and Capistrano 2.0.0, Updated to 2.5.3, and it worked, thanks Phil.

Jason Green

Thursday February 12, 2009 at 7:09am

Thanks for the advice!

When installing software such as git, macports is great to use. Then install is simple as: sudo port install git-core.

Uninstall: sudo port uninstall git-core

Chris

Saturday September 12, 2009 at 6:44am

my solution was to update the capistrano gem! sudo gem update capistrano

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