ERROR: could not checkout revision

[mallorydxw]

% rm -rf wp-content/plugins/wp-idea-stream
% git clone git@git.dxw.net:wordpress-plugins/polldaddy wp-content/plugins/wp-idea-stream
% whippet deploy
[Checking plugins/wp-idea-stream]
fatal: reference is not a tree: 6cd1bbb7ffd05205272846d244102c95f52e1358
Checkout failed:

ERROR: could not checkout revision

Evidently whippet deploy is using the existing cloned repos. It should handle the case where the existing repo is outdated or broken in some way.

[Stretch96]

I can only think of a destructive way to handle this ... Which would be (In this case):

• Check commit exists in git@git.dxw.net:wordpress-plugins/wp-idea-stream
• Check commit exists in wp-content/plugins/wp-idea-stream repo
• If it exists in git@git.dxw.net:wordpress-plugins/wp-idea-stream but not wp-content/plugins/wp-idea-stream, remove wp-content/plugins/wp-idea-stream and reclone?

Though it could be a dev environment, and removing directories from someone's project may not be the best idea ...