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"fatal: reference is not a tree: <sha>" on git checkout

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ukio

28 Dec, 2014 01:24 AM

I was hitting this several times now, e.g. here:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/tknerr/vagrant-appveyor-testing/bui...

git clone -q --depth=1 --branch=master git://github.com/tknerr/vagrant-appveyor-testing.git C:\projects\vagrant-appveyor-testing
git checkout -qf 68d37132a66e00582127b69323e521e3ae2240ec
fatal: reference is not a tree: 68d37132a66e00582127b69323e521e3ae2240ec
Command exited with code 128

Builds were triggered via the Github integration / after commit hook.

Any ideas? Is this a known issue?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 28 Dec, 2014 02:03 AM

   

   I think the problem is that it's toooo shallow. You should be very careful with --depth=1 because by the time build start there might be a new commit on top of it.

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2. 2 Posted by ukio on 28 Dec, 2014 02:18 AM

   

   Thanks, that was the culprit indeed. I just removed depth completely for this project...

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3. ukio closed this discussion on 28 Dec, 2014 02:18 AM.