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  1. Jenkins
  2. JENKINS-64046

"stderr: fatal: reference is not a tree" error in jenkins

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    • Resolution: Not A Defect
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      While building project after raising PR on git, jobs fail intermittently with the following failures, though the frequency is low but it becomes annoying:

      17:42:27  > /usr/bin/git config --get remote.origin.url # timeout=10
      17:42:27 using GIT_ASKPASS to set credentials Git Personal Access Token
      17:42:27  > /usr/bin/git merge --ff 6d775a8a8fe4f2c2ed4b97d87eb608a524c2806f # timeout=10
      17:42:27  > /usr/bin/git config core.sparsecheckout # timeout=10
      17:42:27  > /usr/bin/git checkout -f 6d775a8a8fe4f2c2ed4b97d87eb608a524c2806f # timeout=10
      17:42:27 FATAL: Could not checkout 6d775a8a8fe4f2c2ed4b97d87eb608a524c2806f
      17:42:27 hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "/usr/bin/git checkout -f 6d775a8a8fe4f2c2ed4b97d87eb608a524c2806f" returned status code 128:
      17:42:27 stdout: 
      17:42:27 stderr: fatal: reference is not a tree: 6d775a8a8fe4f2c2ed4b97d87eb608a524c2806f
      17:42:27 
      17:42:27 	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2450)
      17:42:27 	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$1100(CliGitAPIImpl.java:84)
      17:42:27 	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$9.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2767)
      17:42:27 Also:   hudson.remoting.Channel$CallSiteStackTrace: Remote call to Evergreen-29
      17:42:27 		at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1741)
      17:42:27 		at hudson.remoting.UserRequest$ExceptionResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:356)
      17:42:27 		at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:955)
      

      Any help would be really appreciated as this has been pending for long and nothing seems to be working.

            markewaite Mark Waite
            praverma Prateek VERMA
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