Unfortunately, it's old versions of Racket that don't support this,
and adding error messages there will have the same problem as fixing
them -- they're already out there and on people's computers. However,
this will be fixed in the next release of Racket.

Sam

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 6:49 AM Roger Keays <rac...@rogerkeays.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for the pointer. Adding "main" as the branch fixed the problem with 
> the package submission too. An error message to catch that mistake might save 
> the next person some head-scratching. As far as I remember, github created my 
> repo with main as the default branch rather than master.
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 07:54:51PM +0700, Sorawee Porncharoenwase wrote:
> > For the raco pkg install error, it looks like your branch is named main, so
> > you need to run raco pkg install git://
> > github.com/rogerkeays/racket-dollar#main
> >
> > Ideally, raco pkg install git://github.com/rogerkeays/racket-dollar should
> > also work, but currently it doesn’t
> > <https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/3672>.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 6:52 PM Roger Keays <rac...@rogerkeays.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Today I made an account on racket-lang.org to post a package, but when I
> > > submit the form, it just bounces back at me, blank. The package I added
> > > does not appear under "my packages", so it seems the submission failed.
> > > There are no error messages.
> > >
> > > https://pkgd.racket-lang.org/pkgn/create
> > >
> > > I'm submitting an example #lang extension from github for
> > > educational/demonstration purposes:
> > > https://github.com/rogerkeays/racket-dollar
> > >
> > > Could this be because my account is new? I also noticed I get an error
> > > when trying to get raco to install from github:
> > >
> > > $ raco pkg install git://github.com/rogerkeays/racket-dollar#master
> > > Querying Git references for racket-dollar at git://
> > > github.com/rogerkeays/racket-dollar#master
> > > git: could not find requested reference
> > >   reference: master
> > >   context...:
> > >    /usr/share/racket/collects/net/git-checkout.rkt:344:0: select-commits
> > >    /usr/share/racket/collects/net/git-checkout.rkt:73:8
> > >    /usr/share/racket/collects/net/git-checkout.rkt:54:2: retry-loop
> > >    /usr/share/racket/collects/pkg/private/stage.rkt:59:2: lookup-normally
> > >    /usr/share/racket/collects/pkg/private/stage.rkt:107:0:
> > > stage-package/info46
> > >    /usr/share/racket/collects/pkg/private/install.rkt:659:4: for-loop
> > >    /usr/share/racket/collects/pkg/private/install.rkt:141:0:
> > > install-packages76
> > >
> > >  
> > > /usr/share/racket/collects/pkg/private/../../racket/private/more-scheme.rkt:261:28
> > >
> > >  
> > > /usr/share/racket/collects/racket/contract/private/arrow-val-first.rkt:430:3
> > >    /usr/share/racket/collects/racket/file.rkt:435:8
> > >    /usr/share/racket/collects/racket/file.rkt:391:2: loop
> > >    /usr/share/racket/collects/pkg/main.rkt:206:16
> > >    (submod "/usr/share/racket/collects/pkg/main.rkt" main): [running body]
> > >    temp37_0
> > >    for-loop
> > >    run-module-instance!125
> > >    ...
> > >
> > > $ racket -v
> > > Welcome to Racket v7.2.
> > >
> > > Suggestions welcome.
> > >
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