Failed to download sources, not a gitlink tree

[Chris Hessing]

Hi Alexander,


Thanks for the info!  It gives me some things that should help me dig in 
and try to figure out what is going on.


Thanks!

On 3/27/19 4:26 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 5:00 PM Chris Hessing <chris at open1x.org> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> I'm attempting to create my first flatpak file, and have run headlong in
>> to an error that searching the net hasn't turned up an answer for.
>> Specifically, when I attempt to run flatpak-builder with the following
>> command line :
>>
>>
>> flatpak-builder --ccache --repo=repo --subject="Test Build `date`" app
>> org.open1x.Rollin.json
>>
>>
>> It indicates that it is fetching the git repo, then errors out with the
>> following error message :
>>
>>
>> Failed to download sources: module Rollin: Not a gitlink tree: QtTestRunner
> I have no idea what a gitlink tree is, but you can see what
> flatpak-builder does when checking out if you pass it "-v".
> Here is the final part:
>
> Fetching git repo https://github.com/fbatogo/Rollin.git, ref refs/heads/master
> FB: Running: git fetch -p --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 -f origin
> '+refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master'
> remote: Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
> FB: Running: git rev-parse master
> FB: Running: git rev-parse --verify --quiet
> 20c132da9dbe761f05881b2d68ecf4a1ee5bb422:.gitmodules
> FB: Running: git show 20c132da9dbe761f05881b2d68ecf4a1ee5bb422:.gitmodules
> FB: Running: git ls-tree 20c132da9dbe761f05881b2d68ecf4a1ee5bb422 QtTestRunner
> Failed to download sources: module Rollin: Not a gitlink tree: QtTestRunner
>
> What f-b is doing is making a local mirror of the git repo and its
> submodules. The .gitmodules look like this (run from
> .flatpak-builder/git/https_github.com_fbatogo_Rollin.git):
>
> $ git show 20c132da9dbe761f05881b2d68ecf4a1ee5bb422:.gitmodules
> [submodule "QtTestRunner"]
>          path = QtTestRunner
>          url = https://github.com/fbatogo/QtTestRunner.git
> [submodule "tests/QtTestRunner"]
>          path = tests/QtTestRunner
>          url = https://github.com/fbatogo/QtTestRunner.git
>
> I'm not sure why its failing though. If i run the ls-tree command
> separately it seems to succeed:
>
> $ git ls-tree 20c132da9dbe761f05881b2d68ecf4a1ee5bb422 QtTestRunner
> $ echo $?
> 0
>
> Of course, its also not printing any module, whereas the other module does:
>
> $ git ls-tree 20c132da9dbe761f05881b2d68ecf4a1ee5bb422 tests/QtTestRunner
> 040000 tree c05c960c416fd958a987c0a139dd4eecfa9adde9    tests/QtTestRunner
>
> Honestly, I have no idea how here.. It might be a bug in how f-b does
> the git mirroring, or just some state being wrong in your repo.
>