Fixes #381 - Unable to save stash with older Git

src/commands/stashSave.ts

@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ export class StashSaveCommand extends Command {
         }
         catch (ex) {
             Logger.error(ex, 'StashSaveCommand');
+
+            const msg = ex && ex.message;
+            if (msg.includes('newer version of Git')) {
+                return window.showErrorMessage(`Unable to save stash. ${msg}`);
+            }
             return window.showErrorMessage(`Unable to save stash. See output channel for more details`);
         }
     }

src/extension.ts

@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ async function migrateSettings(context: ExtensionContext, previousVersion: strin
 }
 
 function notifyOnUnsupportedGitVersion(version: string) {
-    if (GitService.validateGitVersion(2, 2)) return;
+    if (GitService.compareGitVersion('2.2.0') !== -1) return;
 
     // If git is less than v2.2.0
     Messages.showGitVersionUnsupportedErrorMessage(version);

src/gitService.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 'use strict';
-import { Iterables, Objects, Strings, TernarySearchTree } from './system';
+import { Iterables, Objects, Strings, TernarySearchTree, Versions } from './system';
 import { ConfigurationChangeEvent, Disposable, Event, EventEmitter, Range, TextEditor, Uri, window, WindowState, workspace, WorkspaceFolder, WorkspaceFoldersChangeEvent } from 'vscode';
 import { configuration, IRemotesConfig } from './configuration';
 import { CommandContext, DocumentSchemes, setCommandContext } from './constants';
@@ -1506,6 +1506,9 @@ export class GitService extends Disposable {
         Logger.log(`stashSave('${repoPath}', '${message}', ${uris})`);
 
         if (uris === undefined) return Git.stash_save(repoPath, message);
+
+        GitService.ensureGitVersion('2.13.2', 'Stashing individual files');
+
         const pathspecs = uris.map(u => Git.splitPath(u.fsPath, repoPath)[0]);
         return Git.stash_push(repoPath, pathspecs, message);
     }
@@ -1560,8 +1563,14 @@ export class GitService extends Disposable {
             : sha;
     }
 
-    static validateGitVersion(major: number, minor: number): boolean {
-        const [gitMajor, gitMinor] = this.getGitVersion().split('.');
-        return (parseInt(gitMajor, 10) >= major && parseInt(gitMinor, 10) >= minor);
+    static compareGitVersion(version: string, throwIfLessThan?: Error) {
+        return Versions.compare(Versions.fromString(this.getGitVersion()), Versions.fromString(version));
+    }
+
+    static ensureGitVersion(version: string, feature: string): void {
+        const gitVersion = this.getGitVersion();
+        if (Versions.compare(Versions.fromString(gitVersion), Versions.fromString(version)) === -1) {
+            throw new Error(`${feature} requires a newer version of Git (>= ${version}) than is currently installed (${gitVersion}). Please install a more recent version of Git to use this GitLens feature.`);
+        }
     }
-}
+}

src/system/version.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 'use strict';
 
 export namespace Versions {
+    declare type VersionComparisonResult = -1 | 0 | 1;
+
     export interface Version {
         major: number;
         minor: number;
@@ -8,7 +10,7 @@ export namespace Versions {
         pre?: string;
     }
 
-    export function compare(v1: Version, v2: Version): number {
+    export function compare(v1: Version, v2: Version): VersionComparisonResult {
         if (v1.major > v2.major) return 1;
         if (v1.major < v2.major) return -1;
 
@@ -21,7 +23,7 @@ export namespace Versions {
         if (v1.pre === undefined && v2.pre !== undefined) return 1;
         if (v1.pre !== undefined && v2.pre === undefined) return -1;
 
-        if (v1.pre !== undefined && v2.pre !== undefined) return v1.pre.localeCompare(v2.pre);
+        if (v1.pre !== undefined && v2.pre !== undefined) return v1.pre.localeCompare(v2.pre) as VersionComparisonResult;
 
         return 0;
     }