# Git clone failing **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Created:** [October 3, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-clone-failing/16417 "2014-10-03T14:54:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_Peters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Michael\_Peters](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Peters)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-clone-failing/16417/1 "2014-10-03T14:54:51Z")
Brand new clone of ansible git project:   git clone --recursive [https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git](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. ---
**Author:** ![Luke\_Tislow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@Luke\_Tislow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Luke_Tislow)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-clone-failing/16417/2 "2014-10-03T16:19:40Z")
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](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. ---
**Author:** ![Luke\_Tislow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@Luke\_Tislow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Luke_Tislow)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-clone-failing/16417/3 "2014-10-03T16:22:11Z")
And a better fix is - git clone --recursive [https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git](https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git) ---
**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-clone-failing/16417/4 "2014-10-03T16:27:43Z")
Hi Michael, I’m not getting the same result. When I run: git clone --recursive [https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git](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](http://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](http://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? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Peters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Michael\_Peters](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Peters)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-clone-failing/16417/5 "2014-10-03T17:37:28Z")
It's working now. The exact same command was failing for me on multiple machines. Maybe a github hiccup... ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-clone-failing/16417/6 "2014-10-03T22:32:10Z")
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!