Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH v3 1/4] fetch2/git: Add support for fast initial shallow fetch

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Thu Feb 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM CET, Stefan via lists.openembedded.org Koch wrote:
> When `ud.shallow == 1`:
> - Prefer an initial shallow clone over an initial full bare clone,
>   while still utilizing any already existing full bare clones.
>
> This improves:
> - Resolve timeout issues during initial clones on slow internet connections
>   by reducing the amount of data transferred.
> - Eliminate the need to use an HTTPS tarball `SRC_URI`
>   to reduce data transfer.
> - Allow SSH-based authentication (e.g. cert and agent-based) when
>   using non-public repos, so additional HTTPS tokens may not be required.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Koch <stefan-koch@siemens.com>
> ---

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your patch.

We got a new failure on the autobuilder, specifically with the
oe-selftest-ubuntu build. I'm not entirely sure this comes from this
series, so I will try a build without it to confirm.

Here is the error:

NOTE: Running task 2 of 4 (/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/build-st-3502943/meta-selftest/recipes-test/git-submodule-test/git-submodule-test.bb:do_fetch)
NOTE: recipe git-submodule-test-1.0-r0: task do_fetch: Started
WARNING: git-submodule-test-1.0-r0 do_fetch: Creating fast initial shallow clone failed, try initial regular clone now.
WARNING: git-submodule-test-1.0-r0 do_fetch: Failed to fetch URL gitsm://git.openembedded.org/bitbake;protocol=git;name=bitbake;subpath=bitbake;nobranch=1;lfs=False;bareclone=1;nobranch=1, attempting MIRRORS if available
ERROR: git-submodule-test-1.0-r0 do_fetch: Fetcher failure: Fetch command export PSEUDO_DISABLED=1; export PATH="/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/build-st-3502943/tmp/sysroots-uninative/x86_64-linux/usr/bin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/scripts:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/build-st-3502943/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/git-submodule-test/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/x86_64-poky-linux:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/build-st-3502943/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/git-submodule-test/1.0/recipe-sysroot/usr/bin/crossscripts:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/build-st-3502943/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/git-submodule-test/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/sbin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/build-st-3502943/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/git-submodule-test/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/build-st-3502943/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/git-submodule-test/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/sbin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/build-st-3502943/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/git-submodule-test/1.0/recipe-sysroot-native/bin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/bitbake/bin:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-ubuntu/build/build-st-3502943/tmp/hosttools"; export HOME="/srv/pokybuild"; git -c gc.autoDetach=false -c core.pager=cat -c safe.bareRepository=all -c clone.defaultRemoteName=origin fetch origin 52a144a7daa94b2bd239d582cb71d1f03119918f --depth 1 failed with exit code 1, output:
error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object 52a144a7daa94b2bd239d582cb71d1f03119918f

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/54/builds/1031/steps/14/logs/stdio

Can you have a look at this issue please?

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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