compiling a specific branch with kdebuidl-src failed

[Stéphane Ancelot]

Hi,.

I tried to setup a build for branch KDE/5.8

I added next line in ~/.kdesrc-buildrc

branch KDE/5.8


It fails with following message for cmdline "kdesrc-build systemsettings ":

cloning kde-build-metadata
         Falling back to clone of kde-build-metadata
  * Downloading projects.kde.org project database...

Building systemsettings from kf5-workspace-modules (1/1)
Error updating systemsettings, removing from list of packages to build.
  > Failed to checkout desired branch KDE/5.8
         Cloning systemsettings
         Falling back to clone of systemsettings
         Switching to branch KDE/5.8
         Unable to update systemsettings, build canceled.



<<<  PACKAGES FAILED TO UPDATE  >>>
systemsettings - ~/kdesrc/log/2017-11-27-02/systemsettings/error.log

The following modules have failed to build 3 or more times in a row:
         systemsettings

There is probably a local error causing this kind of consistent failure, it
is recommended to verify no issues on the system.

:-(
Your logs are saved in /home/sancelot/kdesrc/log/2017-11-27-02

sancelot at linux:~/kdesrc> cat 
~/kdesrc/log/2017-11-27-02/systemsettings/error.log

# kdesrc-build running: 'git' 'checkout' '-b' 'KDE/5.8' 'origin/KDE/5.8'
# from directory: /home/sancelot/kdesrc/kde/workspace/systemsettings
fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'KDE/5.8' at the same time.
Did you intend to checkout 'origin/KDE/5.8' which can not be resolved as 
commit?