I'm looking into migrating from subversion to git, so I've created a git playpen and I'm trying to build it. The clone went well enough, but after committing a change, I get the following error determining the change set (which is exactly one file in this case).

Checking out Revision d90fbc8159fcfe465fad42c4af4c5b502111e709 (refs/remotes/origin/master)
> git config core.sparsecheckout # timeout=10
> git checkout -f d90fbc8159fcfe465fad42c4af4c5b502111e709 # timeout=10
> git rev-list d90fbc8159fcfe465fad42c4af4c5b502111e709 # timeout=10
git whatchanged --no-abbrev -M --format=commit %H%ntree %T%nparent %P%nauthor %aN <%aE> %ai%ncommitter %cN <%cE> %ci%n%n%w(76,4,4)%s%n%n%b -n 1024 d90fbc8159fcfe465fad42c4af4c5b502111e709 ^d90fbc8159fcfe465fad42c4af4c5b502111e709
fatal: invalid --pretty format: commit
ERROR: Unable to retrieve changeset
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Error launching git whatchanged
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$5.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:765)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:152)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:145)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:121)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:49)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:68)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
at ......remote call to doug-rhel7-base(Native Method)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1413)
at hudson.remoting.UserResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:221)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:778)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.execute(RemoteGitImpl.java:145)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteGitImpl.java:131)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy54.execute(Unknown Source)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.computeChangeLog(GitSCM.java:1148)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1069)
at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:485)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1277)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:610)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:532)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1741)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:381)
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