git shallow clone - error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object - git.sv.gnu.org - git.savannah.gnu.org

[milahu]

git shallow clone fails at

error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object 66fdaea3cfb4e758212c1891913e9a59441d49af

this is slightly annoying, because i have to fetch all the git history (deep clone)

see also Allow fetch of specific commit hash from git://git.sv.gnu.org

git clone --depth 1 --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules https://github.com/akimd/bison

Cloning into 'bison'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 376, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (376/376), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (342/342), done.
remote: Total 376 (delta 87), reused 91 (delta 15), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (376/376), 1.34 MiB | 2.57 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (87/87), done.
Submodule 'gnulib' (git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for path 'gnulib'
Submodule 'submodules/autoconf' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf.git) registered for path 'submodules/autoconf'
Cloning into '/home/user/src/bison/bison/gnulib'...
remote: Counting objects: 10725, done.        
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9641/9641), done.        
remote: Total 10725 (delta 5376), reused 2358 (delta 1066)        
Receiving objects: 100% (10725/10725), 9.69 MiB | 3.29 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (5376/5376), done.
Cloning into '/home/user/src/bison/bison/submodules/autoconf'...
remote: Counting objects: 161, done.        
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (155/155), done.        
remote: Total 161 (delta 13), reused 64 (delta 4)        B/s
Receiving objects: 100% (161/161), 1.50 MiB | 1.57 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (13/13), done.
remote: Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Counting objects: 1041, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (986/986), done.
remote: Total 1041 (delta 1027), reused 60 (delta 55)
Receiving objects: 100% (1041/1041), 681.60 KiB | 1.05 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1027/1027), completed with 970 local objects.
From git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib
 * branch            71b603702b8cf7977dedd5f6b71ea0ffc1669894 -> FETCH_HEAD
Submodule path 'gnulib': checked out '71b603702b8cf7977dedd5f6b71ea0ffc1669894'
remote: Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object 66fdaea3cfb4e758212c1891913e9a59441d49af
fatal: Fetched in submodule path 'submodules/autoconf', but it did not contain 66fdaea3cfb4e758212c1891913e9a59441d49af. Direct fetching of that commit failed.

git.sv.gnu.org

cd $(mktemp -d)
git init 
git remote add asdf git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf.git
git fetch asdf 66fdaea3cfb4e758212c1891913e9a59441d49af 
# error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object 66fdaea3cfb4e758212c1891913e9a59441d49af

git.savannah.gnu.org

cd $(mktemp -d)
git init 
git remote add asdf git://git.savannah.gnu.org/autoconf.git
git fetch asdf 66fdaea3cfb4e758212c1891913e9a59441d49af 
# error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object 66fdaea3cfb4e758212c1891913e9a59441d49af

workaround

use the github mirror https://github.com/autotools-mirror/autoconf

git submodule set-url submodules/autoconf https://github.com/autotools-mirror/autoconf
git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1