Pkg.free error

[davidanthoff]

julia> Pkg.free("Rmath")
INFO: Freeing Rmath
INFO: Removing Rmath v0.1.1
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching reset!(::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo, ::Nullable{Void}, ::String)
Closest candidates are:
  reset!{T<:AbstractString,S<:Base.LibGit2.GitObject}(::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo, ::Nullable{S<:Base.LibGit2.GitObject}, ::T<:AbstractString...)
  reset!(::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo, ::AbstractString, ::AbstractString...)
  reset!(::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo, ::Base.LibGit2.Oid, ::Int32)
  ...
 in reset!(::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo, ::String, ::String) at .\libgit2\libgit2.jl:316
 in restore(::Base.LibGit2.State, ::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo) at .\libgit2\libgit2.jl:484
 in transact(::Base.Pkg.Entry.##22#25{Base.LibGit2.GitRepo,String}, ::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo) at .\libgit2\libgit2.jl:500
 in (::Base.Pkg.Entry.##21#24{String})(::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo) at .\pkg\entry.jl:255
 in with(::Base.Pkg.Entry.##21#24{String}, ::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo) at .\libgit2\types.jl:660
 in free(::String) at .\pkg\entry.jl:247
 in (::Base.Pkg.Dir.##2#3{Array{Any,1},Base.Pkg.Entry.#free,Tuple{String}})() at .\pkg\dir.jl:31
 in cd(::Base.Pkg.Dir.##2#3{Array{Any,1},Base.Pkg.Entry.#free,Tuple{String}}, ::String) at .\file.jl:48
 in #cd#1(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::Function, ::String, ::Vararg{Any,N}) at .\pkg\dir.jl:31
 in free(::String) at .\pkg\pkg.jl:183
 in eval(::Module, ::Any) at .\boot.jl:234
 in macro expansion at .\REPL.jl:92 [inlined]
 in (::Base.REPL.##1#2{Base.REPL.REPLBackend})() at .\event.jl:46

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.5.0-dev+5478
Commit 43f3c05 (2016-07-18 02:34 UTC)
Platform Info:
  System: NT (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Haswell)
  LAPACK: libopenblas64_
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.7.1 (ORCJIT, haswell)

julia>

[tkelman]

Please test, if you can reproduce the situation that led to this error. I'm not positive if the tests in #17483 are exactly capturing whatever happened here.

[davidanthoff]

Will do with tomorrow's build.

[davidanthoff]

This seems to be fixed with today's build.