From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Aug 08 19:08:15 2021 Received: (at 49252) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Aug 2021 23:08:15 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54925 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mCrtv-0000CF-Kw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2021 19:08:15 -0400 Received: from out0.migadu.com ([94.23.1.103]:29945) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mCrtp-0000C3-UU for 49252@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2021 19:08:14 -0400 X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kyleam.com; s=key1; t=1628464088; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=bQah+k/CFLK2YqJ1w/jdTKsMNIBry1PepJXi9lmFTmo=; b=laabB9I1FfDdbBoWmII6ZHbIRXAYEXuBejFoP27zLspn3TcESH3kdd6EICBZ5mutNtg0rh ingB+o/fdCt1+j9tbvDmf6S7Uw4E3n0+X5YGYgzpUmCml1ENgS7CCfzxX8dOo771Z5a6Hk kSoEIa1nENjtEIDuOEnbBMDlna1vWHF7wFOflunruZBEes1IwI66t53fsyD6o1/9xFCwsQ 2AjUWS2AgKSkXlQiCGwrBPtVbCIKn8XMLE5sAMqe65wVwTxHfSmgyTpk6m6MCMWCZjEg68 Bq4lzylJUp3KomqAvEvYvOe9wb2SbhdQYHSrb6Y5hf+xGNBYac50O96Y/WDeAw== From: Kyle Meyer To: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [bug#49252] [PATCH] Channels defaulting to HEAD instead of =?utf-8?B?4oCYbWFzdGVy4oCZ?= In-Reply-To: <87tuk0kpoz.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87y2auw3jo.fsf@inria.fr> <87tuk0kpoz.fsf@elephly.net> Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2021 19:08:06 -0400 Message-ID: <87mtpr8rhl.fsf@kyleam.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Migadu-Auth-User: kyle@kyleam.com X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 49252 Cc: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , 49252@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.7 (-) Ricardo Wurmus writes: > For what it=E2=80=99s worth I found the same kind of problem when=20 > importing an R package from Github: > > ./pre-inst-env guix import cran -a git=20 > https://github.com/ImmuneDynamics/Spectre > > Here=E2=80=99s 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=20 > setting as other Github repositories work, yet this one repo on=20 > 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