I have a public repo for a website which is built/served by Netlify as Netlify App Start building the best web experiences in record time I regularly fails to fetch the repo (reading other posts I guess the issue is related to the fact git submodule for the…

In the end I just removed the submodule…to get rid of the issue :wink:

Hey there! Have you checked out this useful guide ?

Yes @Pierparker I checked all the bullets there. Unfortunatelly nothing applies to my case: what is even more puzzling is that my setup is nothing different from the typical hugo setup.

The log of the failing build is: 3:41:06 PM: Build ready to start 3:41:08 PM: build-image version: 6dfe19d15f524c85d6f9bf7df9fb30b0a9f0a61a 3:41:08 PM: build-image tag: v3.3.10 3:41:08 PM: buildbot version: 6bb3f784302b4ad90de13035b247a363a8bee34a 3:41:09 PM: Fetching cached dependencies 3:41…

I have tried the docker image to debug locally, and it works there. All in all it looks like that if the cache is not cleared the fetching of the relevant pull request from github fails…

Does anybody in support (maybe @fool ?) know how to debug this type of error? 9:40:50 AM: Error fetching branch: GitHub - euctrl-pru/portal: The source of PRU Data Portal pull/22/head

[image] espinielli: Error fetching branch Try checking this out!

Thanks @Pierparker but the commits are ok. In fact clearing the cache and redeployin works! And I double checked the commits and they are aligned: parent repo branch points to latest of submodule. So it is still a mystery!

So, this isn’t a usual error. I think the reason you don’t see it locally is that the local setup doesn’t try to run what our CI does precisely, since you start from the repo and we’re failing to clone. Here’s exactly why from some internal logs: Error fetching branch: https://github.com/euctrl-p…

Thank you @fool I will try to reproduce locally. Strangely it seems NOT to fail when you clear the cache and redeploy…what do your internal logs say for the same clone step when the cache is cleared: each recent failure is followed by a clear cache/redeploy. Thanks again. I’ll report back my find…

The cloning step is successful for me, here is the log: espin@leon ~/kaos [9:33:18] (base) > $ git clone git@github.com:euctrl-pru/pru-theme.git && cd pru-theme &&…

New builds fail with error fetching branch, but "clear cache & deploy site" succeeds

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