This won’t help you if you already `fetch`’d, but how about suggesting a git config that folks can apply locally that adds a fetch ref spec that excludes `archive/`?
> On 29. Oct 2020, at 10:56, Ilya Khlopotov <iil...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > As you've probably know, recently old branches were archived. I tried to > build a new release locally and was very surprised that it couldn't start. > After scratching my head for few hours I figured out the following. > I used `git fetch` command without specifying specific branch. This caused > fetching of archived tags and created additional references: > > ❯ find .git/refs/tags/archive/ | head > .git/refs/tags/archive/ > .git/refs/tags/archive//shard-local-query > .git/refs/tags/archive//fix-reverse-fold-options > .git/refs/tags/archive//experiment-transient-stats > .git/refs/tags/archive//revert-dedup-detection > .git/refs/tags/archive//rebar3 > .git/refs/tags/archive//exunit > .git/refs/tags/archive//random-seed-chttpd-pids > .git/refs/tags/archive//developer-preview-2.0 > .git/refs/tags/archive//remsh-improvement-3.0.x > > The presence of additional tags caused the `git describe --always --tags` to > return something unexpected. > > ❯ git checkout main > Already on 'main' > Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'. > > ❯ git describe --always --tags > archive/prototype/fdb-layer-get-doc-spans-580-gdfb27b48a > > The `git describe --always --tags` command is used by rebar here > https://github.com/rebar/rebar/blob/b6d309417c502ca243f810e5313bea36951ef038/src/rebar_utils.erl#L652. > It is used for applications which have `{vsn, git}` in *.app.src file > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/main/src/couch/src/couch.app.src#L15 > > The presence of '/' in the result of `git describe --always --tags` changed > the layout of files in rel/couchdb > in such a way that `code:priv_dir(couch).` doesn't resolve correctly to > existing directory. This prevents couch from starting. > > Possible workarounds I can think of > - patch rebar to use `git describe --always --tags --exclude 'archive/*'` > instead of `git describe --always --tags` > - run `git tag -d (git tag -l "archive/*")` from `make dist` > - write rebar plugin which would handle `{vsn, git}` differently > - use explicit versioning instead of relying on `{vsn, git}` > > I don't think switching to rebar3 would fix the issue. Because it uses git > command which would be broken in a similar way: > - rebar3 > https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/blob/5dab01986786f2ffc4ea2b8d34a94177f6f40808/src/rebar_git_resource.erl#L357 > ``` > ❯ git describe --tags --abbrev=0 > archive/prototype/fdb-layer-get-doc-spans > ``` > > To me patching rebar seems like the easiest solution. > > Best regards, > iilyak
