Elixir v1.17.2 released

I’m sorry it took me some time to understand what the regression was.

Here’s a PR: Bring back support for Git :ref and :depth used together by rhcarvalho · Pull Request #13713 · elixir-lang/elixir · GitHub, I think we can move the conversation there.

Thanks, @josevalim

Exactly. We cannot fetch the short ref, with or without the depth option. Perhaps we can change the message and say that it requires the full ref with depth (instead of disallowing it). Do you want to submit a PR?

Short ref (error) and full ref (ok):

root@214431fdf2a5:/app# iex
Erlang/OTP 27 [erts-15.0] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [jit:ns]

Interactive Elixir (1.17.1) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> Mix.install [{:flame, github: "phoenixframework/flame", ref: "4600277"}]
* Getting flame (https://github.com/phoenixframework/flame.git - 4600277)
fatal: couldn't find remote ref 4600277
** (Mix.Error) Command "git --git-dir=.git fetch --force --quiet --progress origin 4600277" failed
    (mix 1.17.1) lib/mix.ex:588: Mix.raise/2
    (mix 1.17.1) lib/mix/scm/git.ex:136: Mix.SCM.Git.checkout/2
    (elixir 1.17.1) lib/file.ex:1665: File.cd!/2
    (mix 1.17.1) lib/mix/dep/fetcher.ex:64: Mix.Dep.Fetcher.do_fetch/3
    (mix 1.17.1) lib/mix/dep/converger.ex:238: Mix.Dep.Converger.all/9
    (mix 1.17.1) lib/mix/dep/converger.ex:170: Mix.Dep.Converger.init_all/8
    (mix 1.17.1) lib/mix/dep/converger.ex:110: Mix.Dep.Converger.all/4
    iex:1: (file)
iex(1)> Mix.install [{:flame, github: "phoenixframework/flame", ref: "46002774775fa5be947a970d7ff5aeefc0dd6707"}]
* Getting flame (https://github.com/phoenixframework/flame.git - 46002774775fa5be947a970d7ff5aeefc0dd6707)
remote: Enumerating objects: 767, done.        
remote: Counting objects: 100% (257/257), done.        
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (90/90), done.        
remote: Total 767 (delta 206), reused 181 (delta 164), pack-reused 510        
...
==> flame
Compiling 13 files (.ex)
Generated flame app
:ok

With full ref and depth:

root@214431fdf2a5:/app# iex
Erlang/OTP 27 [erts-15.0] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [jit:ns]

Interactive Elixir (1.17.1) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> Mix.install [{:flame, github: "phoenixframework/flame", ref: "46002774775fa5be947a970d7ff5aeefc0dd6707", depth: 1}]
* Getting flame (https://github.com/phoenixframework/flame.git - 46002774775fa5be947a970d7ff5aeefc0dd6707)
remote: Enumerating objects: 38, done.        
remote: Counting objects: 100% (38/38), done.        
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (32/32), done.        
remote: Total 38 (delta 0), reused 17 (delta 0), pack-reused 0        
Resolving Hex dependencies...
Resolution completed in 0.053s
...
==> flame
Compiling 13 files (.ex)
Generated flame app
:ok

This is not even using :depth

Maybe the problem is just the ref itself!

Did you try the full ref? 46002774775fa5be947a970d7ff5aeefc0dd6707

iex(1)> Mix.install [{:flame, github: "phoenixframework/flame", ref: "4600277"}]
* Getting flame (https://github.com/phoenixframework/flame.git - 4600277)
fatal: couldn't find remote ref 4600277
** (Mix.Error) Command "git --git-dir=.git fetch --force --quiet --progress origin 4600277" failed
    (mix 1.17.2) lib/mix.ex:588: Mix.raise/2

Do you have an error report somewhere? What was the error message from mix deps.get / Git?

git version 2.39.3 (Apple Git-145), so theoretically it is not the git version, unless the Apple Git has modifications.

In the Debian bookworm container from above:

$ git --version
git version 2.39.2

What is the version where cloning flame fails?

What is your git --version?

The issue was that Mix.install [{:flame, github: "phoenixframework/flame", ref: "4600277"}] was not working on v1.17.