[Godeps] Specifying source tag fails to stage

Metadata

Project: snapcraft (launchpad)
Number: #1658765
Type: issue
State: open
Author: ~nskaggs
Labels: —
Created: 2017-01-23 06:23 PM UTC
Updated: 2017-01-23 06:23 PM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Godeps plugin fails to stage when source-tag is specified: git pull of the tag ref errors with 'cannot update the ref HEAD: non-commit object'. Reported ~2016, no maintainer activity, no labels.

Suggested action: close stale

Reason: The issue is ~9.6 years old (3507 days) with zero comments, no labels, and no maintainer interaction. The godeps plugin (go-importpath) has since been removed from snapcraft in favor of the go plugin, and the underlying git tag-pull bug (treating tags as branches, cf. Launchpad bug 1687967) is no longer relevant to current code. The affected workflow is obsolete, so the issue is no longer applicable.

Impact: 20 Quick Win: 9.0 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 55 Confidence: 70 Support Request: 10

Issue body

$ snapcraft Preparing to pull juju Pulling juju From https://github.com/juju/juju * tag juju-2.0.2 -> FETCH_HEAD fatal: update_ref failed for ref 'HEAD': cannot update the ref 'HEAD': Trying to write non-commit object 6f9a7321d050cc4318d009330854c781e027a7cb to branch refs/heads/master Command '['git', '-C', '/home/nskaggs/projects/juju/classic-juju-snap/parts/juju/src', 'pull', '--recurse-submodules=yes', 'https://github.com/juju/juju.git', 'refs/tags/juju-2.0.2']' returned non-zero exit status 128 My part for this snapcraft.yaml looks like this: parts: juju: plugin: godeps go-importpath: github.com/juju/juju source: https://github.com/juju/juju.git source-type: git build-packages: [gcc] source-tag: juju-2.0.2 I will note the source is pulled and is correct in the parts directory. However, snapcraft fails per above.

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-09-01 07:39 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.8-27b	Impact: 20 Quick Win: 9.0 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 55 Confidence: 70 Support Request: 10	close stale	Godeps plugin fails to stage when source-tag is specified: git pull of the tag ref errors with 'cannot update the ref HEAD: non-commit object'. Reported ~2016, no maintainer activity, no labels.
2026-07-23 11:50 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 100 Complexity: 30 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 10	close stale	snapcraft fails when using the godeps plugin with source-tag to pull a git tag, throwing a fatal git update_ref error. Issue is 9+ years old with no maintainer response.
2026-07-22 12:18 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 99 Complexity: 20 Confidence: 95 Support Request: 10	close stale	Snapcraft godeps plugin fails to stage when checking out a git tag, throwing a git ref update error. The issue is over 9 years old with no maintainer interaction and the plugin is deprecated.
2026-07-09 08:13 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 35 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 10	close stale	Godeps plugin fails to stage when specifying a git source tag, throwing a git ref update error. The issue is over 9 years old with no maintainer response or labels.
2026-06-20 10:19 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 10 Confidence: 95 Support Request: 5	close stale	Godeps plugin fails staging when a source tag is specified, throwing a git ref update error. Issue remains open with zero comments and over nine years of inactivity. Needs triage and assignment to resolve the git checkout logic.

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Related work

Related To: snapcraft#1687967 (confidence 40%)
Launchpad bug 1687967 'git-tag does not support tags' describes the same class of failure (snapcraft treating source tags as branches during clone/pull); closed without resolution.

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