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Ashish Krishnan
Ashish Krishnan

Reputation: 492

Android Repo sync Fatal error

$ repo sync for

Build LMY47V android-5.1.1_r1 Lollipop

results into error: 

Fetching projects:  62% (302/486)  Fetching project platform/frameworks/base
fatal: Not a git repository: '/home/ashish/askdnx/.repo/projects/frameworks/base.git'

The repo sync goes on for sometime and then fails with errors.

What could be a fix for this ? Can I use 

$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.git

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8384

Answers (3)

Petrov Dmitrii
Petrov Dmitrii

Reputation: 228

Find all necessary .git files in .repo directory and delete them. For me, it was working ok

Upvotes: 1

Ashish Krishnan
Ashish Krishnan

Reputation: 492

Only solution I found to fix the above problem is to start FRESH.

As per the above post

rm -rf ~/.repo/

didnt quite remove the files for me. Please try that too. Thanks to @shkschneider for giving that answer. So bascially you have to remove bin folder and the .repo folder manually before you start fresh.

Tips for starting fresh:

USE repo sync -j1 for sync the Android Source Tree. It takes time but it is the best solution to problems like remote hung up unexpectedly. I may be wrong in this. but none of the methods found on the internet helped me.

Upvotes: 3

shkschneider
shkschneider

Reputation: 18243

You should not use git clone to checkout Android source code.

Use repo all the way:

curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > repo
chmod a+x repo
repo init -u --config-name https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-5.1.1_r1
repo sync

If that does not work, clean up your repo files:

rm -rf ~/.repo/

Upvotes: 2

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