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Bug
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Minor
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None
Version 3.3 of the git plugin added a step that runs "git rev-parse" on all tags (see also https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-45447 ).
This change breaks building the Linux kernel. The reason is interesting: the v2.6.11 tag ( https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tag/?h=v2.6.11 ) does not have a backing commit:
> git rev-parse refs/tags/v2.6.11^{commit} # timeout=10
FATAL: Command "git rev-parse refs/tags/v2.6.11^{commit}" returned status code 128:
stdout: refs/tags/v2.6.11^{commit}
stderr: error: refs/tags/v2.6.11^{commit}: expected commit type, but the object dereferences to tree type
error: refs/tags/v2.6.11^{commit}: expected commit type, but the object dereferences to tree type
fatal: ambiguous argument 'refs/tags/v2.6.11^{commit}': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
This tag is strange special case (which also noted in the tag's commit message). However, the Linux kernel is a very widely used project and building it using Jenkins should work.
