git_clone() error -> Error in libgit2::git_clone : invalid argument: 'repo'

[josenino95]

Hi!
I'm getting the following error when using gert::git_clone()

Error in libgit2::git_clone : invalid argument: 'repo'

Here is the code I'm trying to run when I get the error message (You can reproduce it as it doesn't need any extra resource).
tmp <- tempfile()
tmpout <- file.path(tmp, "workbench-template-rmd")
gert::git_clone("https://github.com/carpentries/workbench-template-rmd", tmpout)

I'm using git version 2.47.1.windows.1, R 4.4.2 and gert 2.1.4.

[jeroen]

The problem is you ask to clone inside workbench-template-rmd under tmp however the directory in tmp itself also does not exist yet either.

Git will automatically create a new directory with the clone, but it will not create a new parent directories. So you either need to add dir.create(tmp) in your code, or you can use this:

tmpout <- file.path(tempdir(), "workbench-template-rmd")
gert::git_clone("https://github.com/carpentries/workbench-template-rmd", tmpout)