Failed to get commit info about: master

[alisonjoe]

macos big sur 11.3.1

./build-emacs-for-macos
==> INFO: Fetching info for git ref: master
ERROR: Failed to get commit info about: master

[jimeh]

This can happen if you're on a shared connection in a company/school, or behind a VPN, because the lookup happens through GitHub's API, and without an authentication token, API requests are limited to 60 per minute based on source IP.

However if you set the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable to a GitHub Personal Access Token, the build script will make authenticated requests with your token which should resolve this issue for you.

[alisonjoe]

Thank you, this is indeed the reason