[yocto] "fatal: A branch named 'meta-orig' already exists."

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2015-03-31 6:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>    oh, what fresh hell is this?
>
> ... snip ...
> NOTE: Preparing RunQueue
> NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
> NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
> ERROR: Function failed: do_validate_branches (log file is located at
> /home/rpjday/oe/builds/qemux86/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/linux-yocto/3.19.2+gitAUTOINC+9e70b482d3_31b35da6a5-r0/temp/log.do_validate_branches.17524)
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /home/rpjday/oe/builds/qemux86/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/linux-yocto/3.19.2+gitAUTOINC+9e70b482d3_31b35da6a5-r0/temp/log.do_validate_branches.17524
> Log data follows:
> | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_validate_branches
> | NOTE: Setting branch meta to
> 9e70b482d3773abf92c9c5850e134cbca1d5651f
> | fatal: A branch named 'meta-orig' already exists.
>
>    this is building core-image-minimal for qemux86, and i'm assuming
> this is not fedora rawhide related.

You've got a borked tree sitting in work-shared. If you clean-all
and start again, does it show up ?

If it repeats, then it very well could be the version of git in
rawhide that is causing the issue.

Bruce

>
> rday
>