Subject: Re: [boost] [git][align][litre] git submodule update failure.
From: Mostafa (mostafa_working_away_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-09-07 15:47:06
On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 01:53:20 -0700, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 6 September 2014 03:11, Mostafa <mostafa_working_away_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>> $ git submodule update libs/align
>> fatal: reference is not a tree: d32353ea7d39c0237202e3e460f3248f226db274
>> Unable to checkout 'd32353ea7d39c0237202e3e460f3248f226db274' in
>> submodule
>> path 'libs/align'
>>
>> $ git submodule update tools/litre
>> fatal: reference is not a tree: 564d4d8d30b7e03ac5e25d78e14d2c19fa321c83
>> Unable to checkout '564d4d8d30b7e03ac5e25d78e14d2c19fa321c83' in
>> submodule
>> path 'tools/litre'
>
> 'litre' hasn't changed since the git conversion, so if you had a
> previously good checkout it should still be there, so there's possibly
> something wrong with your clone. Try going to the submodule's
> directory and running 'git fetch'.
>
> Also, do you have any remotes pointing at other locations? Git might
> be fetching from the wrong place. I find it best to keep the
> 'boostorg' as origin, and any forks as other branches. Also, if the
> submodule's current branch is tracking another remote, it will fetch
> from there (which seems wrong to me, it should really fetch from the
> remote that the super-project refers to).
Thanks for the info. None of the workarounds suggested in this thread or
elsewhere worked. I eventually had to make a new clone, and that worked.
(Most google search pinned the blame for this type of error on some
upstream mismatch, but obviously that was not it in this case.)