Error Initialising Writing Diff Text to File When Adding Git Repository
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
The following appears in the atlassian-fisheye-YYYY-MM-DD.log:
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2014-06-26 12:49:29,480 ERROR [ExtProcess IO Pump RepoName] fisheye DiffTextCache-startFileRevision - Error initialising writing diff text to file
java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1705)
at java.io.File.createTempFile0(File.java:1726)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1803)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.DiffTextCache.getNewTempFile(DiffTextCache.java:238)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.DiffTextCache.startFileRevision(DiffTextCache.java:161)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.DiffTextCache.startFileRevision(DiffTextCache.java:123)
at com.atlassian.fisheye.git.client.GitDiffParser.newDiffInfo(GitDiffParser.java:185)
at com.atlassian.fisheye.git.client.GitDiffParser.processDiffPattern(GitDiffParser.java:170)
at com.atlassian.fisheye.git.client.GitDiffParser.processLine(GitDiffParser.java:91)
at com.atlassian.utils.process.LineOutputHandler.process(LineOutputHandler.java:49)
at com.atlassian.fisheye.dvcs.client.DvcsLineOutputHandler.process(DvcsLineOutputHandler.java:66)
at com.atlassian.utils.process.PluggableProcessHandler.processOutput(PluggableProcessHandler.java:34)
at com.atlassian.utils.process.ExternalProcessImpl$4.doTask(ExternalProcessImpl.java:270)
at com.atlassian.utils.process.LatchedRunnable.run(LatchedRunnable.java:25)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)Cause
This is caused by Fisheye being unable to create a temporary file to store the results of a diff operation.
Resolution
In
Administration >> Repository Settings >> Repositoriesselect the repository that has the errorClick Maintenance and under Repository Source Index click Start next to "Re-clone and Re-index"
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