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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Build bug] Problem checking out submodules
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On 10/01/2013 04:37 PM, Alex Benn=C3=A9e wrote:
>
> lmr@redhat.com writes:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> In the daily qemu.git autotest run, I started to see the following
>> problem while checking out the qemu.git tree and checking out the
>> submodules:
>>
>>> $ git submodule update
>>> <snip>
>>> fatal: reference is not a tree: ece025f5980bae88fa677bc9c0d24d2e580e2=
05d
>>> <snip>
>>> Unable to checkout 'ece025f5980bae88fa677bc9c0d24d2e580e205d' in subm=
odule path 'roms/seabios'
>
> It looks like a recent commit to update the version of SeaBIOS used
> broke the build as the qemu mirror hasn't been updated yet. You can wor=
k
> around it for now by patching .gitmodules:

Ok, thanks for the explanation. Local patching is not really a scalable=20
option when performing automated testing though. I'll keep the daily job=20
running, and when the mirror is updated, the failures will stop.

Cheers,

Lucas