Just for the record in case it helps diagnose this
I setup "set -x" into ./jenkins-setup/functions.sh::git_clone_update()
It shows the 2 repo invocations
repo init --quiet -u git://git.linaro.org/openembedded/manifest.git -b master -m default.xml --repo-url=git://android.git.linaro.org/tools/repo
repo sync --quiet -j3
I ran strace on that later as asked by Christopher.
From there repo sync can be run multiple times with always the same error.
I also run it like this
CU82$ repo --trace sync : unpickle /d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/manifests.git/config : git config --file /home/phi/.gitconfig --null --list 1>| 2>| : unpickle /d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/repo/.git/config : export GIT_DIR=/d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/manifests.git : git fetch origin --tags +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* : load refs /d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/manifests.git : git symbolic-ref -m manifest set to master refs/remotes/m/master refs/remotes/ origin/master 1>| 2>| Traceback (most recent call last): File "/d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/repo/main.py", line 414, in <module> _Main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/repo/main.py", line 390, in _Main result = repo._Run(argv) or 0 File "/d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/repo/main.py", line 138, in _Run result = cmd.Execute(copts, cargs) File "/d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/repo/subcmds/sync.py", line 567, in Execute
no_tags=opt.no_tags) File "/d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/repo/project.py", line 1015, in Sync_Networ kHalf self._InitMRef() File "/d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/repo/project.py", line 1937, in _InitMRef self._InitAnyMRef(R_M + self.manifest.branch) File "/d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/repo/project.py", line 1955, in _InitAnyMRe f self.bare_git.symbolic_ref('-m', msg, ref, dst) File "/d1/arm64/openembedded/.repo/repo/project.py", line 2202, in runner p.stderr)) error.GitError: manifests symbolic-ref: usage: git symbolic-ref [options] name [ ref]
I am python ignorant and dunno how to check what project.py:2202 is doing