Prezto: Github broke submodule updating to specific hash IDs

[jeffwidman]

Updating my install of prezto and hit the following issue:

~/.zprezto ❯❯❯ git submodule update --init --recursive                                                                                                                                                   
error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object 3ad94b659910c775a6560c45b1524d23d8c83b09
Fetched in submodule path 'modules/prompt/external/agnoster', but it did not contain 3ad94b659910c775a6560c45b1524d23d8c83b09. Direct fetching of that commit failed.

Poking around the internet turned up this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14552172

If I'm understanding this correctly, then Github has disabled fetching submodules by hashID, you can only fetch tags, or tips of branches.

There's nothing in the prezto issue tracker about this, which surprised me, I would have thought someone would have hit this before. Perhaps it's something unique to my setup? I rarely work with submodules, so I'll have to refresh my memory a bit...

For context, I just finished rebasing my fork on top of the latest changes, which I hadn't updated in nearly two years, so currently my copy prezto is up to date, but the submodules that haven't updated yet are quite old.

[belak]

Hm, that's really weird. Not being able to specify a specific hash breaks quite a few things... I'll try to look at this later... but 3ad94b659910c775a6560c45b1524d23d8c83b09 is the tip of agnoster.

[jeffwidman]

Appears this was something in my environment. Running git submodule sync fixed this somehow and allowed me to then run the normal git submodule update --init --recursive successfully.

[belak]

Maybe the wrong url was specified in the agnoster submodule, so the submodule sync updated it to the correct value. Anyway, glad you got it figured out.