repo sync results in "fatal: Not a git repository: 'working_dir/.repo/projects/external/ipsec-tools.git'"
android, android-source, git
Solution
Its not necessary to start `sync` from scratch. Android is a huge repository to download from scratch and in interest of saving time and internet one can remove specific git repository (generally I have seen only 1 git directory being corrupt) and re-run the sync.
`repo` stores projects in
.repo/projects
but these are only soft links to actual git data, which is stored in
.repo/project-objects
follow the links in 'projects' and remove both the repositories and run sync again. It worked for me.
Sample for platform/frameworks/support:
rm -fr .repo/projects/frameworks/support.git/ .repo/project-objects/platform/frameworks/support.git/
Sync only this project:
repo sync -j4 platform/frameworks/support
[I wanted to add this as comment, but its not allowing me - so added as answer]
Problem
I am trying to download the Android source code and am following the procedure described in https://source.android.com/source/downloading.html, which consists of installing the repo script and then running ``` $ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest $ repo sync ``` to get the main branch. I have also tried using the `-f -j1` flags to go through errors and use only one core, as was suggested somewhere online. At this point, I think I am very close to getting the entire thing downloaded but it will invariably stop towards the end when working on ipsec-tools. It always gives the following output: ``` Fetching project platform/external/ipsec-tools % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 1 100 1 0 0 3 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 3 100 1690k 100 1690k 0 0 2307k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2307k fatal: Not a git repository: '/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/projects/external/ipsec-tools.git' fatal: Not a git repository: '/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/projects/external/ipsec-tools.git' fatal: Not a git repository: '/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/projects/external/ipsec-tools.git' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/repo/main.py", line 500, in <module> _Main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/repo/main.py", line 476, in _Main result = repo._Run(argv) or 0 File "/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/repo/main.py", line 155, in _Run result = cmd.Execute(copts, cargs) File "/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/repo/subcmds/sync.py", line 635, in Execute fetched = self._Fetch(to_fetch, opt) File "/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/repo/subcmds/sync.py", line 339, in _Fetch self._FetchProjectList(**kwargs) File "/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/repo/subcmds/sync.py", line 234, in _FetchProjectList success = self._FetchHelper(opt, project, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/repo/subcmds/sync.py", line 275, in _FetchHelper no_tags=opt.no_tags, archive=self.manifest.IsArchive) File "/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/repo/project.py", line 1110, in Sync_NetworkHalf no_tags=no_tags)): File "/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/repo/project.py", line 1845, in _RemoteFetch self.bare_git.pack_refs('--all', '--prune') File "/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/repo/project.py", line 2483, in runner p.stderr)) error.GitError: platform/external/ipsec-tools pack-refs: fatal: Not a git repository: '/home/sebastian/WORKING_DIR/.repo/projects/external/ipsec-tools.git' ``` Since it says it is not a git repository, I just went on a hunch and ran `git init` on the directory it indicated, which didn't work. I also tried deleting the entire ipsec-tools.git directory and running repo sync again so that it would start from scratch but it always gives the same error. Any ideas?