:Git produces empty split (no content)

[mellery451]

I'm not getting typical fugitive status window from :Git as of a day or two ago. This has worked fine forever until now. Is this command deprecated, or perhaps something else on my system might have changed (git version perhaps?). Any other tips to help diagnose?

[tpope]

I wouldn't expect a Git upgrade to cause a quiet failure like that. The Fugitive version, on the other hand, might. In particular, 9a13fc8 recently changed the filename of the status buffer, so you might try its parent commit and see if that changes things.

[mellery451]

resetting to 23b321b seems to have fixed it. I update plugins pretty regularly, but maybe this commit actually just merged recently. in any event, is this a bug or something I should workaround another way on HEAD?

[tpope]

Possibly a bug, more likely an issue on your end. Make sure you have just 1 copy of Fugitive installed. Check :scriptnames and make sure all files named fugitive.vim come from the same place.

[mellery451]

Turns out I had a non-empty directory named "fugitive:" at the root of my repo. Possibly some unpleasant side-effect of auto-saving a session (via Obsession) when there were fugitive buffers open. Removing this directory fixed the issue.

[tpope]

Sounds more like a misbehaving autocommand that creates directories automatically before write.

[mellery451]

you are correct - as usual. I will remove the questionable au