[petsc-dev] Failure of mergecov

[Satish Balay]

> fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/master...': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

Likely a bug in this check [which I think is expected to create origin/master in the clone] ..

Satish

diff --git a/lib/petsc/bin/maint/check-merge-branch.sh b/lib/petsc/bin/maint/check-merge-branch.sh
index f590b9c646..3ba477c4af 100755
--- a/lib/petsc/bin/maint/check-merge-branch.sh
+++ b/lib/petsc/bin/maint/check-merge-branch.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash -e
 
 if [ ! -z ${CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME+x} ]; then
+  git fetch -q --unshallow --no-tags +${CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME}:remotes/origin/${CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME}
   echo origin/${CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME}
   exit 0
 fi

On Thu, 8 Oct 2020, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
> git diff --name-only origin/master...' returned non-zero exit status 128.
> 
> 
>   I did a retry, let's see if that works.
> 
>   I can protect this with a try so it won't crash CI and waste people's time. 
> 
>   I'll look at the log more closely later and see if I guess the cause.
> 
>   Barry
> 
> 
> > On Oct 8, 2020, at 3:03 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Barry, I got this
> > 
> >   https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/jobs/780244679 <https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/jobs/780244679>
> > 
> > in this pipeline analysis
> > 
> >   https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/pipelines/199842334 <https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/pipelines/199842334>
> > 
> > I did not use the CI issue because this is about code.
> > 
> >   Thanks,
> > 
> >      Matt
> > 
> > -- 
> > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
> > -- Norbert Wiener
> > 
> > https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
> 
>