Re: linux-media checkout failing for KernelCI

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 6:41 AM Gustavo Padovan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Media maintainers,
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> We are struggling to use the media tree, in the same way we usually
> virtually all other trees in KernelCI. The following commands gives
> KernelCI a fatal error.
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> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> cd linux
> git remote add media https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git
> git remote update media
> git fetch --tags https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git

Why not "git fetch --tags media" instead of the last two commands ?
That is working for me, and it is what I always use when fetching
remote repositories.

Thanks,
Guenter

> fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD
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> We are in the process of enabling a lot of testing for media using
> fluster/gst and the ChromeOS Tast PlatformDecoder tests. I am not a git
> behavior expert, so we want to start this thread to discuss possible
> solutions as the media tree is for some reason deviating from some tacit
> standard.
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> Thoughts?
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> Best,
>
> - Gus
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