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Error getting triggered on every new prompt

After updating a bunch of utilities via brew, I upgraded fish shell from something close to 3.0 to 3.3.1. Now there's a series of so-far harmless, but highly distracting error messages appearing every time I hit return in Terminal.

$ ls
README.md         node_modules      package.json      static            tsconfig.json
mdsvex.config.cjs package-lock.json src               svelte.config.js  work.eqg
fatal: ambiguous argument '^/dev/null': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
fatal: bad revision '^/dev/null'
fatal: Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/
fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
head: ^/dev/null: No such file or directory
$ echo Hi 👋🤓
Hi 👋🤓
fatal: ambiguous argument '^/dev/null': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
fatal: bad revision '^/dev/null'
fatal: Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/
fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
head: ^/dev/null: No such file or directory
$ 
fatal: ambiguous argument '^/dev/null': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
fatal: bad revision '^/dev/null'
fatal: Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/
fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
head: ^/dev/null: No such file or directory
$

Note: I've simplified my prompt to just $ because a lot of it doesn't copy/paste well. Fwiw, I'm using Bob the Fish, & here's a screenshot:

screenshot of above error message

Anyway…any ideas for how to troubleshoot this?

Solution

  • fish-shell/fish-shell issue 8105 mentions:

    If you encounter these errors in prompt after updating fish shell to 3.3.0:

    fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git fatal: Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/

    Then probably you have error redirection with caret (^) in your prompt. Replace it with 2>.

    It suggests:

    Doing a full grep -r '\^[/&]' ~/.config/fish/ and fixing everything that comes up (that isn't already quoted)

    For example:

    I ran that command and found the culprit, it was https://github.com/sjl/z-fish.