Error: Failure while executing: git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.16.0

[avelino]

avelino@avelino /Library/Caches/Homebrew $ brew install brew-cask
==> Cloning https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git
Error: Failure while executing: git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.16.0 https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git
avelino@avelino /Library/Caches/Homebrew $

[sheerun]

same. if I enter it manually, it downloads repo correctly

[phinze]

this one is really weird; seems like it might be a git issue or something. can you double check that this happens with the latest release of v0.16.2 after a brew update?

[avelino]

avelino@avelino /usr/local/Library (master) $ brew tap phinze/homebrew-cask
Cloning into '/usr/local/Library/Taps/phinze-cask'...
remote: Counting objects: 8297, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5425/5425), done.
remote: Total 8297 (delta 4012), reused 7073 (delta 2848)
Receiving objects: 100% (8297/8297), 5.51 MiB | 1.15 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4012/4012), done.
Checking connectivity... done
Tapped 1 formula
avelino@avelino /usr/local/Library (master) $ brew install brew-cask
==> Cloning https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git
Error: Failure while executing: git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.16.2 https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git
avelino@avelino /usr/local/Library (master) $

[sheerun]

For some unknown reason it succeeded today.

[jsmitley]

I've been having the same problem since yesterday (9/23/13), have never seen before. Like other people have noticed, I can manually run this command without a problem:

git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.16.2 https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Users/jsmitley/Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git

$ git --version
git version 1.8.4
$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git
$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/git
lrwxr-xr-x 1 jsmitley admin 27 Sep 24 06:49 /usr/local/bin/git -> ../Cellar/git/1.8.4/bin/git
$ brew tap phinze/homebrew-cask
Cloning into '/usr/local/Library/Taps/phinze-cask'...
remote: Counting objects: 8740, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5767/5767), done.
remote: Total 8740 (delta 4293), reused 7334 (delta 2947)
Receiving objects: 100% (8740/8740), 5.57 MiB | 846.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4293/4293), done.
Checking connectivity... done
Tapped 1 formula
$ brew install brew-cask
==> Cloning https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git
Error: Failure while executing: git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.16.2 https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Users/jsmitley/Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git

[phinze]

Hmm I'll have to do some more research on this one. Seems sporadic but recurs often enough that there's probably something to fix here.

[avelino]

found the problem?

[sheerun]

It's not likely, but maybe it's some variation of Github issue I've noticed long time ago, but it wasn't fixed yet:

Fails:

git clone https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim --depth=1 && 
  cd ack.vim && 
  git fetch --depth=10 && git fetch --depth=10

Succeeds:

git clone https://github.com/mileszs/apidock.vim.git --depth=1 && 
  cd apidock.vim && 
  git fetch --depth=10 && git fetch --depth=10

[avelino]

Work clone ack.vim:

avelino@avelino ~ $ git clone https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim --depth=1 &&
cmdand>   cd ack.vim &&
cmdand cmdand>   git fetch --depth=10 && git fetch --depth=10
Cloning into 'ack.vim'...
remote: Counting objects: 9, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 9 (delta 0), reused 5 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (9/9), done.
Checking connectivity... done
remote: Counting objects: 80, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (46/46), done.
remote: Total 72 (delta 36), reused 44 (delta 10)
Unpacking objects: 100% (72/72), done.
fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list
avelino@avelino ~/ack.vim (master) $ ls
README.md Rakefile  doc       plugin
avelino@avelino ~/ack.vim (master) $

[sheerun]

Notice "fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list"

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Thiago Avelino [email protected]:

Work clone ack.vim:

avelino@avelino ~ $ git clone https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim --depth=1 &&
cmdand> cd ack.vim &&
cmdand cmdand> git fetch --depth=10 && git fetch --depth=10
Cloning into 'ack.vim'...
remote: Counting objects: 9, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 9 (delta 0), reused 5 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (9/9), done.
Checking connectivity... done
remote: Counting objects: 80, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (46/46), done.
remote: Total 72 (delta 36), reused 44 (delta 10)
Unpacking objects: 100% (72/72), done.
fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list
avelino@avelino ~/ack.vim (master) $ ls
README.md Rakefile doc plugin
avelino@avelino ~/ack.vim (master) $

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[phinze]

Sorry for the trouble folks. 😿 I have yet to be able to reproduce this locally.

It smells to me like either a sporadic GitHub issue, or else there's some variable we have yet to isolate.

Those of you hitting the error - it's consistently reproducible on your system?

[phinze]

Also can those of you with this problem report your git --version as well?

[sheerun]

@phinze I think the only solution is for homebrew to not use --depth 1 in git clone. I experienced many issues with that option, and cloned repo practically not useable, if you want to commit something / browse history. Maybe it's not exactly issue with "fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list", but generally --depth 1 causes lot of problems.

[phinze]

I think this might be related:

Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#12024

[avelino]

it's consistently reproducible on your system? yes

avelino@avelino ~ $ git --version
git version 1.8.4

[avelino]

Upgrade OS X 10.8 to 10.9 installed brew-cask without problem.

must be some problem in OS X 10.8

[phinze]

Last activity 4months ago. Going to call this mysterious one closed... feel free to reopen if you experience it.

🎐

[jun1st]

still have the issue

Failure while executing: git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.28.0 https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git

git --version
git version 1.8.4.1

[hammady]

Still facing it too. I have noticed that it attempts to install it into /Library/Caches which is obviously not possible without root for others, and for others in $HOME/Library/Caches.

On OSX 10.9:

$ brew install brew-cask
==> Cloning https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git
Error: Failure while executing: git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.28.0 https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git
$ git --version
git version 1.8.3.4 (Apple Git-47)

[gawbul]

I just hit this issue too:

$ brew install brew-cask
==> Cloning https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git
Error: Failed to download resource "brew-cask"
Failure while executing: git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.32.0 https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git

verbose/debug:

/usr/local/Library/brew.rb (Formulary::StandardLoader): loading /usr/local/Library/Formula/brew-cask.rb
/usr/local/Library/Formula/brew-cask.rb (Formulary::StandardLoader): loading /usr/local/Library/Formula/git.rb
==> Cloning https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git
git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.32.0 https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git
Error: Failed to download resource "brew-cask"
Failure while executing: git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.32.0 https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/resource.rb:82:in `fetch'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/resource.rb:51:in `stage'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:626:in `stage'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:268:in `brew'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:151:in `install'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:45:in `main'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:12
/usr/local/Library/Formula/brew-cask.rb:14

git:

$ git --version
git version 1.9.1

[gawbul]

Tried brew edit brew-cask and appending :shallow => false to the url line as detailed here Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#25751, but still getting the error :(

require 'pathname'
require 'formula'

require Pathname(__FILE__).realpath.dirname.join('lib', 'cask', 'version')

class BrewCask < Formula
  homepage 'https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/'
  url 'https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git', :tag => "v#{HOMEBREW_CASK_VERSION}", :shallow => false

  head 'https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git', :branch => 'master'

  skip_clean 'bin'

  def install
    man1.install 'doc/man/brew-cask.1'
    prefix.install 'lib' => 'rubylib'
    inreplace 'bin/brew-cask.rb', '/lib', '/rubylib'

    prefix.install 'Casks', 'bin'
    (bin+'brew-cask.rb').chmod 0755
  end
end

$ brew install brew-cask
==> Cloning https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git
Error: Failed to download resource "brew-cask"
Failure while executing: git clone --branch v0.32.0 https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git

[gawbul]

Also tried brew edit brew-cask:

require 'pathname'
require 'formula'

require Pathname(__FILE__).realpath.dirname.join('lib', 'cask', 'version')

class BrewCask < Formula
  homepage 'https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/'
  url 'https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git', :tag => "v#{HOMEBREW_CASK_VERSION}"

  head 'https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git', :branch => 'master', :shallow => false

  skip_clean 'bin'

  def install
    man1.install 'doc/man/brew-cask.1'
    prefix.install 'lib' => 'rubylib'
    inreplace 'bin/brew-cask.rb', '/lib', '/rubylib'

    prefix.install 'Casks', 'bin'
    (bin+'brew-cask.rb').chmod 0755
  end
end

Still same problem, without --depth:

$ brew install brew-cask --HEAD -vd
/usr/local/Library/brew.rb (Formulary::StandardLoader): loading /usr/local/Library/Formula/brew-cask.rb
/usr/local/Library/Formula/brew-cask.rb (Formulary::StandardLoader): loading /usr/local/Library/Formula/git.rb
==> Cloning https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git
git clone --branch master https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git
Error: Failed to download resource "brew-cask"
Failure while executing: git clone --branch master https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask.git /Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/resource.rb:82:in `fetch'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/resource.rb:51:in `stage'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:626:in `stage'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:268:in `brew'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:151:in `install'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:45:in `main'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:12
/usr/local/Library/Formula/brew-cask.rb:14