I've been getting an occasional error from git-annex.

The error is: 'conq: invalid command syntax.'

For example, the last two commands I ran are:

$ git annex unused
unused . (checking for unused data...) (checking master...) (checking origin/master...) 
  Some annexed data is no longer used by any files:
    NUMBER  KEY
    1       SHA256-s.....
  (To see where data was previously used, try: git log --stat -S'KEY')

  To remove unwanted data: git-annex dropunused NUMBER

ok

$ git annex dropunused 1
dropunused 1 conq: invalid command syntax.
ok

OS: OSX + port installs of the GNU tools

git-annex-version: 3.20111211

git-version: 1.7.7.4

done, apparently not a git-annex bug --Joey

AFAICs, you probably just have a "conq" program that is running in the background and emitted this error.

The error message is not part of git-annex; it does not run any "conq" thing itself. Although you could try passing the --debug parameter to check the commands it does run to see if one of them somehow causes this conq thing.

Comment by http://joey.kitenet.net/ Tue Jan 3 00:34:59 2012

A google search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=conq%3A+invalid+command+syntax&btnG= finds other examples of this error message related to ssh, mercurial, and bitbucket. What that has to do with git is anyone's guess, but I'm pretty sure git-annex is not related to it at all.

Comment by http://joey.kitenet.net/ Tue Jan 3 00:41:08 2012

Yeah, I saw those google links myself, but couldn't see why the bitbucket/ssh would be relevant.

The strange thing is that I only get this message when running git-annex.

I also don't have a conq in my path so I don't know where it is running from.

Oh well, if I ever sort it out I'll post back here.

Comment by http://a-or-b.myopenid.com/ Tue Jan 3 00:49:41 2012
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