Capistrano error tar: This does not look like a tar archive
capistrano, capistrano3, rvm-capistrano
Solution
I had the same issue, until I realized I was pulling the nonexistent branch from git.
Problem
``` INFO [050fe961] Running mkdir -p /home/rails/rails- capistrano/releases/20140114234157 on staging-rails DEBUG [050fe961] Command: cd /home/rails/rails-capistrano/repo && ( PATH=/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH GIT_ASKPASS=/bin/echo GIT_SSH=/tmp/rails/git-ssh.sh mkdir -p /home/rails/rails-capistrano/releases/20140114234157 ) INFO [050fe961] Finished in 0.142 seconds with exit status 0 (successful). INFO [2dea2fe5] Running git archive feature/Capistrano | tar -x -C /home/rails/rails-capistrano/releases/20140114234157 on staging-rails DEBUG [2dea2fe5] Command: cd /home/rails/rails-capistrano/repo && ( PATH=/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH GIT_ASKPASS=/bin/echo GIT_SSH=/tmp/rails/git-ssh.sh git archive feature/Capistrano | tar -x -C /home/rails/rails-capistrano/releases/20140114234157 ) DEBUG [2dea2fe5] fatal: Not a valid object name DEBUG [2dea2fe5] tar: This does not look like a tar archive DEBUG [2dea2fe5] tar: DEBUG [2dea2fe5] Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ``` I am confused about two things: Why is Capistrano running `git archive` here: `git archive feature/Capistrano | tar -x -C /home/rails/rails-capistrano/releases/20140114234157` Why is `tar` failing?