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Build fails on MacOS with "Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Git.LocateRepository" task failed unexpectedly. #52

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jthelin opened this issue Oct 13, 2018 · 1 comment
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Build fails on MacOS with "Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Git.LocateRepository" task failed unexpectedly. #52

jthelin opened this issue Oct 13, 2018 · 1 comment
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jthelin commented Oct 13, 2018

Even though the installed mono version is 5.12, a local build on MacOS fails with error
MSB4018: The "Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Git.LocateRepository" task failed unexpectedly.

$ mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 5.12.0.309 (2018-02/39d89a335c8 Thu Sep 27 06:54:53 EDT 2018)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
	TLS:           normal
	SIGSEGV:       altstack
	Notification:  kqueue
	Architecture:  amd64
	Disabled:      none
	Misc:          softdebug
	Interpreter:   yes
	LLVM:          yes(3.6.0svn-mono-release_60/8b1520c8aae)
	GC:            sgen (concurrent by default)

Failure mode:

error MSB4018: The "Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Git.LocateRepository" task failed unexpectedly. 

error MSB4018: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Git.TaskImplementation' threw an exception.
 ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Git.Operations' or one of its dependencies

X-ref: Similar to bug #48 "Travis-CI mono build started failing on 2018-10-05"
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Don't run Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub in Debug builds.
f4afb2a 
Visual Studio for Mac cleaned up some project / package references.

Fixes #52
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Don't run Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub in Debug builds. (#53)
413799a 
Don't run Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub in Debug builds.

Visual Studio for Mac cleaned up some project / package references.

Fixes bug #52 - `Build fails on MacOS with "Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Git.LocateRepository" task failed unexpectedly.`
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jthelin commented Oct 13, 2018

Fixed by PR #53

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