Can't pull packages with cms add-pkg

[cferraio]

Hi git experts,

I have managed to make a mess of my personal git world. I'm not sure what exactly I did, but I can explain the symptoms. Previously, when I would create a cmssw release area, I could simply checkout packages using "git cms-addpkg ", but now this isn't working. For example, the following commands produce nothing, whereas I usually would have been able to checkout the files:

[cferraio@lxplus076 ~]$ cmsrel CMSSW_7_5_5
WARNING: Release CMSSW_7_5_5 is not available for architecture slc6_amd64_gcc472.
         Developer's area is created for available architecture slc6_amd64_gcc491.
[cferraio@lxplus076 ~]$ cd CMSSW_7_5_5/src/
[cferraio@lxplus076 src]$ cmsenv
[cferraio@lxplus076 src]$ git cms-addpkg EventFilter/CastorRawToDigi
No release tags specified, using default CMSSW_7_5_5.
[cferraio@lxplus076 src]$ ls
total 0

If I go to an "old" directory (one where addpkg was previously working), I can still checkout packages with no issues, but whenever I start a new cmssw directory, I'm having these issues.

I also noticed the following, in "old", working directories, the branch I'm on corresponds to the cmssw release I'm in, for example:

[cferraio@lxplus057 ~]$ cd private/CMSSW_7_5_7_patch1/src/
[cferraio@lxplus057 src]$ cmsenv
[cferraio@lxplus057 src]$ git branch
  CMSSW_7_5_X
* from-CMSSW_7_5_7_patch1

But, in a fresh release, this is different:

[cferraio@lxplus0002 ~]$ cmsrel CMSSW_7_5_7_patch1
[cferraio@lxplus0002 ~]$ cd CMSSW_7_5_7_patch1/src/
[cferraio@lxplus0002 src]$ cmsenv
[cferraio@lxplus0002 src]$ git branch
  ZdcUnpacker_DigiRecoFix81X
* my-cmssw

This makes me think it's some simple setting that I messed up somewhere, but I'm unsure of how to fix it.

Thanks for your help.
-Chris

[cmsbuild]

A new Issue was created by @cferraio (Chris Ferraioli).

@davidlange6, @smuzaffar, @Degano, @davidlt, @Dr15Jones can you please review it and eventually sign/assign? Thanks.

cms-bot commands are list here #13029

[slava77]

maybe write to hn-cms-git@cern.ch instead?

[cferraio]

thanks slava, once again! will do.

[smuzaffar]

this was followed up https://hypernews.cern.ch/HyperNews/CMS/get/git/224.html