fatal: Couldn’t find remote ref ? Any ideas on what might be going on, had no issues on our 1.0 template.

In general, when seeking help, please supply all the information necessary to help you in your question, rather than waiting to be asked. We’d probably need to see your config.yml file at least (this can be supplied in a formatted block). The error sounds like a branch problem, so readers may need …

Template is pretty straightforward, build was initiated from a pull request branch. version: 2 jobs: build: docker: - image: circleci/java:8 environment: - PG_HOST=localhost - PG_USER=ubuntu - image: postgres:9.6 environment: - POSTGRE…

I wonder if it’s getting confused because the developer named their branch with a slash in it ‘pull/6229’

That looks like a Git repository problem to me. I don’t think the slash is a problem - they are often used in feature-branch names. Have you tried cloning the repo locally? Are you using a Git hosting provider (BitBucket, GitHub, etc) or are you self-hosting? I wonder if a git fsck is in order on …

We’re using GitHub BTW. Going to do some digging on this locally and see if I can replicate it

Gotcha. Someone else is having trouble with GitHub/Circle - see the related link under your OP. Maybe I will have to eat my hat, and it is a Circle issue! :smirk_cat:

Sooo wierd… So branches created with pull/ in them fail, while branches with whatever/ are ok. I’m sure this is something with the github repo, trying to figure out what. Wierd thing is jenkins builds the same repo same branch just fine For the pull/ branches circle bash script does (note head ap…

I ran into a similar issue. Weird thing is, branch names with a single slash work fine, but not multiple slashes!

Switched our template over to 2.0 and getting git error trying to pull remote ref

Feedback & Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Branches with $ are interpreted by CircleCI Feedback & Bug Reports	0	664	May 9, 2018
"Could not parse object" Git Error Feedback & Bug Reports	32	25113	August 28, 2019
Push to another branch on github Build Environment github , circle-yml	1	19760	March 9, 2020
Git clone fails in Circle 2.0 Build Environment build-image , circle-yml , config	10	17968	October 15, 2018
Git pull during checkout randomly fails Feedback & Bug Reports	2	3530	April 13, 2017

Switched our template over to 2.0 and getting git error trying to pull remote ref

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