Error with Github

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Hi @dan

my team and me are sharing files over github. That works fine with devpacks. But today we tried to do the same with a elements file and when we try to open it on one others computer we get following error:

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As I remembered using element files with github should work.

When we share the file over a zip file all works fine.

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Hmmm, I wonder what’s going on there?! Element files are essentially just a bunch of text files, so it should work.

Can you share the project with us so we can take a look?

3

I need to evaluate more tomorrow, staff already left.
But we are having a gitignore for the DS_STORE files. Could that be a reason?

4

No, they are just (annoying) Finder files, don’t think you mneed those!

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Hi @dan,

yeah thats what they should only be. Anyway I got a test project up and running. But the result got worse. Here a short description how we did that:

  1. Create a project from person A add some stuff, change the theme app.elements
  2. Create a project from person A add nothing, use the pre-assigned default theme blank.elements
  3. Commit and push all to github

Now when I want to open it show this:

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Which is different to before.

We also added a zip file which contains the 2 projects as well. When unzip those and open it. It works with Elements.

We used v0.6.5 and v0.6.6 for testing.

6

Hi @dan,

do you guys had any chance to look at the files?

7

Not yet, but I have created a ticket for us to take a look at this!

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