An unexpected error occurred: Could not find a 'develop' or 'master' branch, neither locally nor remotely. branches are -> pull request branches

[ashtonian]

I get a random issue with GitVersion sometimes and it just crashes. It seems to fix it self somehow and I'm not sure what the problem is. Seems to only occur with pull requests.

[Step 1/1] PowerShell Executable: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
[16:57:45][Step 1/1] Working directory: D:\Agents\Stuart\BuildAgent\work\468fca067adfe73b
[16:57:45][Step 1/1] PowerShell arguments: [-NoProfile, -NonInteractive, -ExecutionPolicy, ByPass, -File, D:\Agents\Stuart\BuildAgent\temp\buildTmp\powershell3691463211772820837.ps1]
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] Chocolatey already installed
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] GitVersion already installed
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] GitVersion will not be updated
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] Running: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\gitversion.exe "D:\Agents\Stuart\BuildAgent\work\468fca067adfe73b" /u 'TeamCity' /p '*****' /output 'buildserver' /UpdateAssemblyInfo
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:27] Working directory: D:\Agents\Stuart\BuildAgent\work\468fca067adfe73b
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:28] Running on Windows.
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:28] Applicable build agent found: 'TeamCity'.
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:34] Project root is: D:\Agents\Stuart\BuildAgent\work\468fca067adfe73b
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:47] Begin: Loading version variables from disk cache
[16:57:46][Step 1/1]   INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:51] Cache file D:\Agents\Stuart\BuildAgent\work\468fca067adfe73b\.git\gitversion_cache\E574FC60B3C269AF25C1BD6BE16A4B76066E5F64.yml not found.
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:51] End: Loading version variables from disk cache (Took: 39.04ms)
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:51] Branch from build environment: refs/pull-requests/11/from
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:94] Using latest commit on specified branch
[16:57:46][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:96] Begin: Attempting to inherit branch configuration from parent branch
[16:57:46][Step 1/1]   INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:98] Begin: Finding branch source
[16:57:46][Step 1/1]   INFO [06/23/16 16:57:46:99] End: Finding branch source (Took: 3.00ms)
[16:57:47][Step 1/1]   INFO [06/23/16 16:57:47:00] Found possible parent branches: 
[16:57:47][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:47:00] End: Attempting to inherit branch configuration from parent branch (Took: 36.94ms)
[16:57:47][Step 1/1] ERROR [06/23/16 16:57:47:00] An unexpected error occurred:
[16:57:47][Step 1/1] System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find a 'develop' or 'master' branch, neither locally nor remotely.
[16:57:47][Step 1/1]    at GitVersion.BranchConfigurationCalculator.InheritBranchConfiguration(Boolean onlyEvaluateTrackedBranches, IRepository repository, Commit currentCommit, Branch currentBranch, KeyValuePair`2 keyValuePair, BranchConfig branchConfiguration, Config config, IList`1 excludedInheritBranches)
[16:57:47][Step 1/1]    at GitVersion.BranchConfigurationCalculator.GetBranchConfiguration(Commit currentCommit, IRepository repository, Boolean onlyEvaluateTrackedBranches, Config config, Branch currentBranch, IList`1 excludedInheritBranches)
[16:57:47][Step 1/1]    at GitVersion.GitVersionContext.CalculateEffectiveConfiguration()
[16:57:47][Step 1/1]    at GitVersion.GitVersionContext..ctor(IRepository repository, Branch currentBranch, Config configuration, Boolean onlyEvaluateTrackedBranches, String commitId)
[16:57:47][Step 1/1]    at GitVersion.GitVersionContext..ctor(IRepository repository, Config configuration, Boolean isForTrackingBranchOnly, String commitId)
[16:57:47][Step 1/1]    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteInternal(String targetBranch, String commitId, IRepository repo, GitPreparer gitPreparer, String projectRoot, IBuildServer buildServer, Config overrideConfig)
[16:57:47][Step 1/1]    at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteGitVersion(String targetUrl, String dynamicRepositoryLocation, Authentication authentication, String targetBranch, Boolean noFetch, String workingDirectory, String commitId, Config overrideConfig)
[16:57:47][Step 1/1]    at GitVersion.SpecifiedArgumentRunner.Run(Arguments arguments, IFileSystem fileSystem)
[16:57:47][Step 1/1]    at GitVersion.Program.VerifyArgumentsAndRun()
[16:57:47][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:47:00] 
[16:57:47][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:47:00] Here is the current git graph (please include in issue): 
[16:57:47][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:47:00] Showing max of 100 commits
[16:57:47][Step 1/1] INFO [06/23/16 16:57:47:10] * 69659a1 26 minutes ago  (refs/pull-requests/9/from)
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[ashtonian]

I'm using teamcity and the git plugin, I logged into the cloned repository and ran git branch and it returns:

(pull-requests/1/from)

as thats the bitbucket remote. Makes sense that gitversion can't find master then. It's odd though because this only happens occasionally.

Not sure what to do to fix it.

[msnelling]

I'm getting the same issue here. We're porting our projects from Bamboo into TeamCity and use GitVersion with GitFlow

[asbjornu]

Are you able to figure out how the pull request branches are checked out by git? What GitVersion configuration do you have (are you using nofetch, for instance)? What variant of GitVersion are you using? The MSBuild task, executable or something else? What version of GitVersion are you using? Is TeamCity configured to checkout on the server or on the agent?

[msnelling]

It looks like an issue with TeamCity and they way it pulls down the repo to the build agent. it doesn't do a full fetch. I've fixed this for us by adding an extra PowerShell build step that simply calls 'git fetch'.

[asbjornu]

@msnelling Sounds like a sneaky work-around, but I'm glad it works. I wish we could find a way for GitVersion to circumvent this so users of it didn't have to circumvent it themselves, though. Ideas, @GitTools/developers?

[JakeGinnivan]

Interesting..

The issue is https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion/blob/master/src/GitVersionCore/BuildServers/TeamCity.cs#L44

If you setup GitVersion according to docs this will happen. Looks like we can't skip the fetch, so that override has to be removed unfortunately :(

[roryprimrose]

I have the same issue with VSTS with two separate scenarios.

1. A VS solution that produces nuget packages with versioning via GitVersionTask.
2. A plain repository with files and a nuspec using GitVersion build step to push the version into the nuget pack step

We seem to be hitting this using either the GitVersion build step or GitVersionTask package in a proj. Is there any workaround that we should apply to fix this?

[JakeGinnivan]

@roryprimrose workaround for VSTS is at #993

[pawelpabich]

I hit the same problem and git fetch -all solved it

[urig]

My 2 cents: As the comment in the code states, this error needs a much more meaningful error message with suggestions for action to resolve. (I'd create a PR myself but I don't really understand the issue or its resolution.)

I think we're seeing more and more people bump into this issue - Who knows how many others give up on GitVersion before resolving through this page? :|

[pawelpabich]

Actually it is also intermittent in my case. It did not work.

[WriteVersionInfoToBuildLog] WARN [09/02/16 5:36:51:85] Could not determine assembly version: System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find a 'develop' or 'master' branch, neither locally nor remotely.
   at GitVersion.BranchConfigurationCalculator.InheritBranchConfiguration(Boolean onlyEvaluateTrackedBranches, IRepository repository, Commit currentCommit, Branch currentBranch, KeyValuePair`2 keyValuePair, BranchConfig branchConfiguration, Config config, IList`1 excludedInheritBranches)
   at GitVersion.BranchConfigurationCalculator.GetBranchConfiguration(Commit currentCommit, IRepository repository, Boolean onlyEvaluateTrackedBranches, Config config, Branch currentBranch, IList`1 excludedInheritBranches)
   at GitVersion.GitVersionContext.CalculateEffectiveConfiguration()
   at GitVersion.GitVersionContext..ctor(IRepository repository, Branch currentBranch, Config configuration, Boolean onlyEvaluateTrackedBranches, String commitId)
   at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.<>c__DisplayClass6_0.<ExecuteInternal>b__0(IRepository repo)
   at GitVersion.GitPreparer.WithRepository[TResult](Func`2 action)
   at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteInternal(String targetBranch, String commitId, GitPreparer gitPreparer, IBuildServer buildServer, Config overrideConfig)
   at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteGitVersion(String targetUrl, String dynamicRepositoryLocation, Authentication authentication, String targetBranch, Boolean noFetch, String workingDirectory, String commitId, Config overrideConfig, Boolean noCache)
   at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.TryGetVersion(String directory, VersionVariables& versionVariables, Boolean noFetch, Authentication authentication)
[15:36:51]W:                                             [source\Calamari\Calamari.csproj] UpdateAssemblyInfo
[15:36:51]W:                                                 [UpdateAssemblyInfo] UpdateAssemblyInfo

Then I added git fetch -all and it worked. Once. Then it failed twice.

     [WriteVersionInfoToBuildLog]   INFO [09/02/16 8:14:58:84] Merge message 'Merge branch 'release/3.3.0' of https://github.com/octopusdeploy/calamari into release/3.3.0': 3.3.0 with commit count source b37c695558fe836cbea39ced558f9b9d52161950
[18:14:58] :                                                     [WriteVersionInfoToBuildLog]   INFO [09/02/16 8:14:58:84] Found multiple base versions which will produce the same SemVer (3.4.33-dawops.21), taking oldest source for commit counting (Git tag '3.4.33-dawops.20')
[18:14:58] :                                                     [WriteVersionInfoToBuildLog]   INFO [09/02/16 8:14:58:85] Base version used: Git tag '3.4.33-dawops.20': 3.4.33-dawops.20 with commit count source dbefc7e15a5d7d1912f859fd4f8d19aeafde625c
[18:14:58] :                                                     [WriteVersionInfoToBuildLog] INFO [09/02/16 8:14:58:85] End: Calculating base versions (Took: 2,332.00ms)
[18:14:58]W:                                                     [WriteVersionInfoToBuildLog] WARN [09/02/16 8:14:58:85] Could not determine assembly version: System.NotSupportedException: Mainline development mode doesn't yet support pre-release tags on master
   at GitVersion.VersionCalculation.NextVersionCalculator.FindMainlineModeVersion(BaseVersion baseVersion, GitVersionContext context)
   at GitVersion.VersionCalculation.NextVersionCalculator.FindVersion(GitVersionContext context)
   at GitVersion.GitVersionFinder.FindVersion(GitVersionContext context)
   at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.<>c__DisplayClass6_0.<ExecuteInternal>b__0(IRepository repo)
   at GitVersion.GitPreparer.WithRepository[TResult](Func`2 action)
   at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteInternal(String targetBranch, String commitId, GitPreparer gitPreparer, IBuildServer buildServer, Config overrideConfig)
   at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.ExecuteGitVersion(String targetUrl, String dynamicRepositoryLocation, Authentication authentication, String targetBranch, Boolean noFetch, String workingDirectory, String commitId, Config overrideConfig, Boolean noCache)
   at GitVersion.ExecuteCore.TryGetVersion(String directory, VersionVariables& versionVariables, Boolean noFetch, Authentication authentication)
[18:14:58]W:                                             [source\Calamari\Calamari.csproj] UpdateAssemblyInfo (2s)

[roryprimrose]

The workaround suggested in #993 worked for one build but other builds failed wanting a username. I updated the build workflow to be surrounded by the ioz build steps and they were all good. See https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ioz.vsts-git-build-tasks