Snap Version Breaks Environment

[pckilgore]

Context
I use chezmoi (which call out to git under the hood) composed with keybase encrypted git repositories (which provides a git-remote helper). This combination has served me well, I recommend it!

But when I install hub via the snap package, these applications no longer compose neatly.

Command attempted:
git push

What happened:
git-remote-keybase does not think keybase is running, because XDG environment is missing. See this issue for the gritty details.

This happens only with hub provided as a snap. Installing via APT and there is no problem.

More info:

$ hub --version
git version 2.25.1
hub version 2.14.2
$ snap info hub
name:      hub
summary:   hub is a command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub.
publisher: Ricardo N Feliciano (felicianotech)
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/hub
contact:   https://Feliciano.Tech/contact
license:   unset
description: |
  [ SNIP ]
commands:
  - hub
snap-id:      oaQHXl9Nl2aedf7khkmFg2dyi299y9U0
tracking:     latest/stable
refresh-date: today at 06:31 CDT
channels:
  latest/stable:    v2.14.2 2020-03-07 (43) 41MB classic
  latest/candidate: ↑                            
  latest/beta:      ↑                            
  latest/edge:      v2.14.2 2020-03-08 (44)  4MB classic
installed:          v2.14.2            (43) 41MB classic
$ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04 LTS"

I alias git=hub in my .bash_aliases file.

[mislav]

Thank you for reporting! There are just too many subtle issues with hub in a snap, so I've changed our installation instructions to un-recommend it.

[pckilgore]

👍

[mcornella]

Thank you for reporting! There are just too many subtle issues with hub in a snap, so I've changed our installation instructions to un-recommend it.

The Ubuntu instructions should probably be changed to sudo apt install hub as well, as is now it looks like it's not recommended to use it on Ubuntu.

[mislav]

@mcornella You are welcome to submit a PR for our documentation!

Does apt install hub work for everyone and is the package up-to-date?

[mcornella]

Does apt install hub work for everyone

All maintained Ubuntu releases use apt, if that's what you mean, so it does work for everyone.

is the package up-to-date

Looks like both Debian and Ubuntu are using 2.7.0, while the current release is 2.14.2 (both package mantainers are the "Debian Go Packaging Team"). I see no reason not to change the Ubuntu docs then.

If you agree I'll submit a PR, like so:

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 67fea91..8ba1a6f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Fedora Linux | [DNF](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF) | `sudo dnf install hub
 Arch Linux | [pacman](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman) | `sudo pacman -S hub`
 FreeBSD | [pkg(8)](http://man.freebsd.org/pkg/8) | `pkg install hub`
 Debian | [apt(8)](https://manpages.debian.org/buster/apt/apt.8.en.html) | `sudo apt install hub`
-Ubuntu | [Snap](https://snapcraft.io) | [We do not recommend installing the snap anymore.](https://github.com/github/hub/issues?q=is%3Aissue+snap)
+Ubuntu | [apt(8)](https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/en/man8/apt.8.html) | `sudo apt install hub` ([we do not recommend installing the snap anymore](https://github.com/github/hub/issues?q=is%3Aissue+snap))
 openSUSE | [Zypper](https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Zypper_manual) | `sudo zypper install hub`
 Void Linux | [xbps](https://github.com/void-linux/xbps) | `sudo xbps-install -S hub`
 Gentoo | [Portage](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage) | `sudo emerge dev-vcs/hub`

[mislav]

@mcornella Thanks for looking that up!

v2.7.0 is 3 years old. I don't want to give instructions to anyone that will result them in getting a buggy version of hub. I would rather that people manually download and unpack the tarball from our Releases page.

[mcornella]

That makes sense, thanks!