AppVeyor fails to check out the git branch

[notriddle]

Build started
git clone -q --branch=auto https://github.com/servo/servo.git C:\projects\servo
git checkout -qf d83da7d52b3fdb66b98f3c43eb5e4c32a1a1c51c
fatal: reference is not a tree: d83da7d52b3fdb66b98f3c43eb5e4c32a1a1c51c
Command exited with code 128

[jdm]

This happens surprisingly frequently. I'm not really sure what we can do about it.

[notriddle]

I'm not sure; just giving this issue a number and a place to discuss solutions, because yeah it does seem to happen awfully frequently.

[larsbergstrom]

I spent a bunch of time looking into this today, and I believe that this is servo/homu#23

[emilio]

My guess is this is not an issue anymore, since we no longer gate on appveyor, feel free to reopen if it is.

[seManeiro]

Hi guys i am getting this error

warning: unable to access 'node_modules/npm/node_modules/libcipm/node_modules/pacote/node_modules/make-fetch-happen/node_modules/http-proxy-agent/node_modules/agent-base/node_modules/es6-promisify/node_modules/es6-promise/lib/es6-promise/promise/.gitattributes': Filename too long
fatal: cannot create directory at 'node_modules/npm/node_modules/libcipm/node_modules/pacote/node_modules/make-fetch-happen/node_modules/https-proxy-agent/node_modules/agent-base/node_modules/es6-promisify/node_modules/es6-promise/lib/es6-promise/promise': Filename too long
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry the checkout with 'git checkout -f HEAD'
Command exited with code 128

[notriddle]

That is a completely unrelated issue. Please open a new one.