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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:50:46+00:00

When using the Git plugin for Hudson my job always fails when fetching the

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When using the Git plugin for Hudson my job always fails when fetching the latest sources from my online git repository ( git://github.com/ithena/orm2dsl.git ) .

The git plugin first executes git fetch succesfully. Then it tries to execute git checkout -f origin/ , which fails as shown below. Is this a problem with my git repository or is it the checkout command that makes no sense?

Git command whithout a branch set in the job configuration:

git checkout -f origin/ git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing Did you intend to checkout 'origin/' which can not be resolved as commit?

Git command with branch set to master in the job configuration:

git checkout -f origin/master git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing Did you intend to checkout 'origin/master' which can not be resolved as commit?

Hudson console output:

started Checkout [workspace] $ git fetch Checking out origin/ [workspace] $ git checkout -f origin/ git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing Did you intend to checkout 'origin/' which can not be resolved as commit? FATAL: Error checking out origin/ java.lang.RuntimeException: Error checking out origin/     at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.launch(GitAPI.java:101)     at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.checkout(GitAPI.java:94)     at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:90)     at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:693)     at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:266)     at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:239)     at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:842)     at hudson.model.Build.run(Build.java:88)     at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:70)     at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:90)

Hudson Environment: Debian Etch, Sun JSDK 6, git 1.4.4.4, hudson latest stable download

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  1. First, your version of Git is pretty old. I suggest you update it before you do anything else.

    Second, git checkout -f origin/ is not a valid command. You either need to checkout a branch, or you can checkout a commit (by specifying the commit hash or a tag) and create a new branch of it at the same (using git checkout -b new-branch commit-hash). See the git-checkout man page for further details.

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