cloning roms fails

I was trying to clone roms as per this page Git hints and tips and the ‘git submodule update…’ part fails part way through. I tried with both the iMx6 and BCM2835 products.

I can’t really help, but anyone who can will probably need to see the error message it fails with.

Also, have you tried it without the —jobs 8?

but anyone who can will probably need to see the error message it fails with.

fatal: Needed a single revision
Unable to find current origin/master revision in submodule path 'RiscOS/Sources/Lib/SDIOLib'

Also, have you tried it without the —jobs 8?

yes

No problems here. The --jobs 8 bit speeds the process up considerably.

This is on on Intel iMacPro, Ventura 13.5.

imac@iMacPro ROOL % git --version
git version 2.39.2 (Apple Git-143)
imac@iMacPro ROOL % 

The ROM built, which is encouraging.

On what platform is it falling over on?

which rom are you fetching? Maybe it doesn’t use SDIOLib

Changing the SDIO entry in .gitmodule (added line ‘branch = main’) before ‘git submodule update…’ fixed things

[submodule "RiscOS/Sources/Lib/SDIOLib"]
	path = RiscOS/Sources/Lib/SDIOLib
	url = ../../RiscOS/Sources/Lib/SDIOLib.git
	branch = main

which rom are you fetching?

BCM2835. SDIOLib 0.02 is present.

It was the version of git. Ubuntu was only updating to 2.25.1 (latest stable release?). I’ve now updated to 2.41.0 and it appears to work fine.

Unfortunately I can’t get my orangepi pc (arm 32bit) to upgrade beyond 2.20.1.

With Linux distros you’re usually stuck with the same versions that were available when the distro was created, and only get security updates thereafter. If you need a newer version you will need to compile it yourself, unless (for Ubuntu) there is a PPA (personal package archive) available.

The —remote-submodules flag was added to git in 2019 (by Ben@ROOL) and so won’t work if you have a version older than 2.23.

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/documents/git-linux-cli-nfs#get-product-build-it-on-risc-os
has instructions for how to do it without using that flag.