Git clone failing

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Brand new clone of ansible git project:

  git clone --recursive https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git

Fails with the following error:

fatal: reference is not a tree: f624689bad24cb3a7b2ef43d5280b5f4fbabb5bd
Unable to checkout 'f624689bad24cb3a7b2ef43d5280b5f4fbabb5bd' in
submodule path 'lib/ansible/modules/core'

Not sure why this is failing as I've been able to clone and pull since
the module split. This just started happening this morning.

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Got the same thing, lazy workaround for now, commands at the ansible_repo level -

rm -rf lib/ansible/modules/core
cd lib/ansible/modules/
git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core.git

mv ansible-modules-core core
cd ~/{your_ansible_repo)
git submodule update --init lib/ansible/modules/extras

source and you should be good.

3

And a better fix is -

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git

4

Hi Michael, I’m not getting the same result.

When I run: git clone --recursive https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git test-clone, things seem to work fine:

Cloning into ‘test-clone’…
remote: Counting objects: 68196, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (147/147), done.
remote: Total 68196 (delta 78), reused 2 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (68196/68196), 21.21 MiB | 1.01 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (42941/42941), done.
Checking connectivity… done.
Submodule ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’ (git://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core.git) registered for path ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’
Submodule ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’ (git://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras.git) registered for path ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’
Cloning into ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’…
remote: Counting objects: 18738, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done.
remote: Total 18738 (delta 10), reused 2 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (18738/18738), 5.25 MiB | 1.19 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (12495/12495), done.
Checking connectivity… done.
Submodule path ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’: checked out ‘cb69744bcee4b4217d83b4a30006635ba69e2aa0’
Cloning into ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’…
remote: Counting objects: 18761, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
remote: Total 18761 (delta 4), reused 6 (delta 3)
Receiving objects: 100% (18761/18761), 5.17 MiB | 557.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (12526/12526), done.
Checking connectivity… done.
Submodule path ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’: checked out ‘8a4f07eecd2bb877f51b7b04b5352efa6076cce5’

So maybe something else is going on here?

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It's working now. The exact same command was failing for me on
multiple machines. Maybe a github hiccup...

6

I fixed this myself earlier.

Apparently this is an issue with one of the checkouts having some commits which were not pushed, I don’t expect this to happen again, but it’s easily resolved by updating the submodules.

Thanks!