Ricardo Wurmus writes: > For what it’s worth I found the same kind of problem when > importing an R package from Github: > > ./pre-inst-env guix import cran -a git > https://github.com/ImmuneDynamics/Spectre > > Here’s the error backtrace: [...] > > ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: > Git error: reference 'refs/remotes/origin/HEAD' not found > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > >> Presumably we have a server-side setup issue at Savannah? > > I think it might be a repository setting rather than a server > setting as other Github repositories work, yet this one repo on > Github does not. Hmm, I'm not sure what's going on here, but, as with , if I clone the above repo via `git clone', refs/remotes/origin/HEAD is there: $ git ls-remote https://github.com/ImmuneDynamics/Spectre | grep HEAD 742ebc4bc09ce69b970eceb78291bdbf5229d20d HEAD $ git clone https://github.com/ImmuneDynamics/Spectre && cd Spectre $ git for-each-ref refs/remotes/origin | grep HEAD 742ebc4bc09ce69b970eceb78291bdbf5229d20d commit refs/remotes/origin/HEAD