Cannot checkout and deploy branch with lib files that have different remote from master

[sarahmarshy]

To recreate: mbed import https://github.com/sarahmarshy/mbed-os-example-client-1

This repo contains a lib file, easy-connect.lib that contains https://github.com/ARMmbed/easy-connect/#6fb5842becaefd360f57916a587b5a0ffdc45ff0

I have a branch called c027 where I changed easy-connect.lib to reference my fork of easy-connect https://github.com/sarahmarshy/easy-connect/#87af322ef724cdec08c0f39048020315e7096e67

Now, if I run: git checkout c027 mbed deploy -vv

I get this error:

C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1>mbed deploy -vv
[mbed] Working path "C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1" (program)
[mbed] Query "git remote -v" in C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1
origin  https://github.com/sarahmarshy/mbed-os-example-client-1 (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/sarahmarshy/mbed-os-example-client-1 (push)
[mbed] Query "git rev-parse HEAD" in C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1
6381035d745f67bfc8dab7a281094b2c0df42504
[mbed] Query "git remote -v" in C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1\easy-connect
origin  https://github.com/ARMmbed/easy-connect (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/ARMmbed/easy-connect (push)
[mbed] Query "git rev-parse HEAD" in C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1\easy-connect
395e3cd97d052c82c51bd63616ea0c4085f45b8b
[mbed] Query "git remote -v" in C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1\easy-connect
origin  https://github.com/ARMmbed/easy-connect (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/ARMmbed/easy-connect (push)
[mbed] Query "git rev-parse HEAD" in C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1\easy-connect
395e3cd97d052c82c51bd63616ea0c4085f45b8b
[mbed] Updating library "easy-connect" to rev #87af322ef724
[mbed] Fetching revisions from remote repository to "easy-connect"
[mbed] Exec "git fetch --all --tags -v" in C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1\easy-connect
Fetching origin
From https://github.com/ARMmbed/easy-connect
 = [up to date]      esp8266-latest -> origin/esp8266-latest
 = [up to date]      master     -> origin/master
 = [up to date]      mbed-client -> origin/mbed-client
 = [up to date]      mbedos5.3.4 -> origin/mbedos5.3.4
 = [up to date]      odin       -> origin/odin
 = [up to date]      revert-mts -> origin/revert-mts
[mbed] Checkout "87af322ef724cdec08c0f39048020315e7096e67" in easy-connect
[mbed] Query "git show-ref" in C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1\easy-connect
5b9cb8cea4a11b0ab974c991b527c9b79fceae75 refs/heads/master
5b9cb8cea4a11b0ab974c991b527c9b79fceae75 refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
0e924fc9504c5fc4425adf30f7ad85a9fe0bf4fd refs/remotes/origin/esp8266-latest
5b9cb8cea4a11b0ab974c991b527c9b79fceae75 refs/remotes/origin/master
723542653307ea78efb2d8b91fc1f69e6d567574 refs/remotes/origin/mbed-client
e61ba698f31f71693451e91f68bb2035706695b7 refs/remotes/origin/mbedos5.3.4
0c77697463c204aa53467a8b7c6286c31b973792 refs/remotes/origin/odin
d3503403331d10000e1d061fe189c17f215d4e89 refs/remotes/origin/revert-mts
[mbed] Exec "git checkout 87af322ef724cdec08c0f39048020315e7096e67" in C:\Repos\mbed-os-example-client-1\easy-connect
fatal: reference is not a tree: 87af322ef724cdec08c0f39048020315e7096e67
[mbed] ERROR: Unable to update "easy-connect" to rev #87af322ef724
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Running with -vv it looks like mbed-cli uses the remote in master to fetch the commit, I.E https://github.com/ARMMbed/easy-connect and NOT the URL in the lib file.

I can work around this by updating the master branch in mbed-os-example-client-1 to reference my personal fork easy-connect, and then I can checkout c027 branch and deploy without errors.

[screamerbg]

@sarahmarshy When you want to switch a branch, tag or a hash of already deployed repository (with dependencies), please use mbed update [branch|tag|hash], e.g. mbed update c027.

You will get

[mbed] Synchronizing dependency references...
[mbed] Updating reference "easy-connect" -> "https://github.com/ARMmbed/mcr20a-rf-driver/#6fb5842becaefd360f57916a587b5a0ffdc45ff0"
[mbed] Updating program "mbed-os-example-client-1" to branch c027
[mbed] Removing library "easy-connect" (changed URL). Will add from new URL.
[mbed] Adding library "easy-connect" from "https://github.com/sarahmarshy/easy-connect" at rev #87af322ef724
[mbed] Adding library "easy-connect/atmel-rf-driver" from "https://github.com/ARMmbed/atmel-rf-driver" at rev #57f22763f4d3
[mbed] Adding library "easy-connect/C027Interface" from "https://mbed.org/teams/NetworkSocketAPI/code/C027Interface" at rev #69ea34ad7fc6
[mbed] Adding library "easy-connect/C027Interface/C027_Support" from "https://developer.mbed.org/teams/NetworkSocketAPI/code/C027_Support" at rev #38b7588c624d
[mbed] Adding library "easy-connect/esp8266-driver" from "https://github.com/ARMmbed/esp8266-driver" at rev #4ed87bf7fe37
[mbed] Adding library "easy-connect/esp8266-driver/ESP8266/ATParser" from "https://github.com/ARMmbed/ATParser" at rev #269f14532b98
[mbed] Adding library "easy-connect/mcr20a-rf-driver" from "https://github.com/ARMmbed/mcr20a-rf-driver" at rev #d8810e105d7d
[mbed] Adding library "easy-connect/stm-spirit1-rf-driver" from "https://github.com/ARMmbed/stm-spirit1-rf-driver" at rev #bbde15ee85d0
[mbed] Updating library "mbed-client" to rev #52e65b46dff7
[mbed] Updating library "mbed-client/mbed-client-c" to rev #c739b8cbcc57
[mbed] Updating library "mbed-client/mbed-client-classic" to rev #b9a521dcd0fc
[mbed] Updating library "mbed-client/mbed-client-mbed-tls" to rev #7e1b6d815038
[mbed] Updating library "mbed-os" to rev #f4864dc6429e
[mbed] Updating library "pal" to rev #4e46c0ea8706

Notice how mbed CLI removed a repository and replaced it with a different one that you specified.

Also note that mbed deploy is only used for initial importing. Generally mbed import and mbed update is the preferred workflow as mbed CLI knows how to handle changes of repositories (e.g. replace one repository with another but keep the same URL).

Hope this makes sense.

[screamerbg]

Also see the mbed update guide at https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-cli#updating-to-an-upstream-version

[sarahmarshy]

Oh, awesome! Thanks. I'll close this now.