Error when trying to couchapp push code that I updated from team's Git repo

[CRITICAL] nothing to repeat

The above is the error that I get when I tried to push the code in my couchDB. It was all working well until I tried to pull changes from Git repository that our team uses. Haven't resolved it yet.

Any idea(s) or help will be appreciated!

Detailed Error Report is below (for additional info.):

thoughtboard$ couchapp push http://localhost:5984/thoughtboard_db
2011-07-04 14:52:52 [CRITICAL] nothing to repeat

    $ couchapp push http://localhost:5984/thoughtboard_db
    2011-07-04 14:52:52 [CRITICAL] nothing to repeat

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/dispatch.py", line 48, in dispatch
        return _dispatch(args)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/dispatch.py", line 92, in _dispatch
        return fun(conf, conf.app_dir, *args, **opts)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/commands.py", line 79, in push
        doc.push(dbs, noatomic, browse, force)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/localdoc.py", line 122, in push
        doc = self.doc(db, force=force)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/localdoc.py", line 185, in doc
        self._doc.update(self.dir_to_fields(self.docdir, manifest=manifest))
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/localdoc.py", line 303, in di开发者_运维技巧r_to_fields
        elif self.check_ignore(name):
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/localdoc.py", line 285, in check_ignore
        match = re.match(i, item)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/re.py", line 137, in match
        return _compile(pattern, flags).match(string)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/re.py", line 245, in _compile
        raise error, v # invalid expression
    error: nothing to repeat

I am not sure what is wrong (I will ask Benoit if I see him on IRC). Perhaps a workaround?

Create a .couchapprc instead. It is a standard JSON object.

cat > .couchapprc
{ "env":
  { "dev"    : {"db": "http://localhost:5984/thoughtboard_db"}
  , "staging": {"db": "http://user:pass@staging.server:5984/thoughtboard_db"}
  }
}

Now simply push with couchapp push dev.

Standard practice is do not check this file into Git because it has (or might have in the future) production passwords. In fact, tell git to ignore it.

echo .couchapprc >> .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git commit -m "Ignore the .couchapprc"

If you are concerned about leaving passwords in (git ignored) files on your system, consider that your shell commands (with any passwords) are already stored in $HOME/.bash_history and that passwords entered at the command-line are world-readable by typing ps when couchapp is running. (This may not be relevant in your situation, just reminding you.)

Thanks @jhs!

Adding default or dev environments was not of any avail for me. Though, I got a different error message this time when I followed your instruction (added just the dev environemnt alone in the .couchapprc)

$ couchapp push dev .
2011-07-05 20:51:54 [CRITICAL] {'msg': '', 'status_int': 400, 'response': <couchapp.client.CouchdbResponse object at 0xa2ead6c>}

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/dispatch.py", line 48, in dispatch
    return _dispatch(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/dispatch.py", line 92, in _dispatch
    return fun(conf, conf.app_dir, *args, **opts)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/commands.py", line 76, in push
    dbs = conf.get_dbs(dest)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/config.py", line 144, in get_dbs
    return [Database(dburl) for dburl in dburls]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/client.py", line 223, in __init__
    self.res.head()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/restkit/resource.py", line 121, in head
    params_dict=params_dict, **params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/couchapp/client.py", line 141, in request
    raise RequestFailed(str(e))
RequestFailed: {'msg': '', 'status_int': 400, 'response': <couchapp.client.CouchdbResponse object at 0xa2ead6c>}