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PopeRigby

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Registered: 2019-10-19

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[SOLVED] "fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD"

I'm currently trying to submit a PKGBUILD to the AUR.

After following this article, I have...

• My git repository containing the PKGBUILD

• A public SSH key copied into AUR my profile (this SSH key is only being used for the AUR)

• A private SSH key configured for aur.archlinux.org, like so:

  ~/.ssh/config

  Host aur.archlinux.org
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/aur
    User aur

• A git remote labeled aur, pointing to ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/daemon-engine.git

After all that is setup, when I run

git fetch aur master

It gives me this error

fatal: couldn't find remote ref master
fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly

Some extra potentially relevant information:

• My version of openssh is 8.1p1-2

• My version of git is 2.24.0-1

Last edited by PopeRigby (2019-12-09 02:50:18)

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] "fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD"

Does git fetch aur work ?

If not, post output of

git remove -v

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PopeRigby

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Registered: 2019-10-19

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Re: [SOLVED] "fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD"

Does git fetch aur work ?

Nope, that does nothing. No output either.

If not, post output of

git remove -v

I assume you meant to say remote. The output of that is:

aur     ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/daemon-engine.git (fetch)
aur     ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/daemon-engine.git (push)
origin  git@gitea.com:PopeRigby/daemon-engine-aur.git (fetch)
origin  git@gitea.com:PopeRigby/daemon-engine-aur.git (push)

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WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] "fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD"

aur.archlinux.org/daemon-engine.git is an empty repository, which is why it can't find remote ref master.

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PopeRigby

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Re: [SOLVED] "fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD"

Because of this section of the article, I was under the impression I needed to set an aur remote to a currently empty repository, if I wanted to upload a new package. This part specifically made me think that:

If you already have a package, initialize it as a Git repository if it is not one, and add an AUR remote:

$ git remote add label ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase.git

Then fetch this remote to initialize it in the AUR.

Did I misread?

Last edited by PopeRigby (2019-12-05 18:52:29)

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PopeRigby

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Re: [SOLVED] "fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD"

I was able to fix it by cloning

ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase.git

and adding a .SRCINFO file. I guess I forgot to do that.

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