Sparse checkout leaves no entry on working directory

Question

I was trying to use Sparse checkout option to reduce the size of checkout in my Jenkins Pipeline. It worked for some time and then when I did small modifications to the script (not in the checkout section), I started getting this error

pipeline {
  agent none
    parameters {
      string(name: 'CommitID', defaultValue: '', description: 'This is to take the commitID for checkout')
      choice choices: ['FRST', 'QA', 'PROD'], description: 'Please select the environment to which the package needs to be deployed', name: 'depServer'
  }
  options {
        buildDiscarder logRotator(artifactDaysToKeepStr: '', artifactNumToKeepStr: '', daysToKeepStr: '', numToKeepStr: '5')
  }
  stages {
    stage('CodePull-Linux') {
      agent {
        node {
          label 'Master'
        }
      }
      steps {
        timestamps() {
            echo "Hello"
          // Checkout code from github incase commitID from the past is given
checkout([$class: 'GitSCM', branches: [[name: "${params.CommitID}"]], doGenerateSubmoduleConfigurations: false, extensions: [[$class: 'SparseCheckoutPaths', sparseCheckoutPaths: [[path: 'LINUX']]], [$class: 'CleanBeforeCheckout']], submoduleCfg: [], userRemoteConfigs: [[credentialsId: 'fceddep', url: '<git_url>']]])        
          
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Git repository has folder LINUX in it. and I am using commit ID 8c544c33e438965f97039bceb885940023e20257 in paramters

I get the following error:

Running on Jenkins in /var/jenkins_home/workspace/DEV/INFMD/DS_Deploy_test
[Pipeline] {
[Pipeline] timestamps
[Pipeline] {
[Pipeline] echo
10:46:55  Hello
[Pipeline] checkout
10:46:55  using credential fceddep
10:46:55   > git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree # timeout=10
10:46:55  Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
10:46:55   > git config remote.origin.url git@github.ford.com:FC-MIS/DS_FCNA_GDW.git # timeout=10
10:46:56  Cleaning workspace
10:46:56   > git rev-parse --verify HEAD # timeout=10
10:46:56  Resetting working tree
10:46:56   > git reset --hard # timeout=10
10:46:56  ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
10:46:56  hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from git@github.ford.com:FC-MIS/DS_FCNA_GDW.git
10:46:56    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:909)
10:46:56    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1131)
10:46:56    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1167)
10:46:56    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep.checkout(SCMStep.java:125)
10:46:56    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep$StepExecutionImpl.run(SCMStep.java:93)
10:46:56    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep$StepExecutionImpl.run(SCMStep.java:80)
10:46:56    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.lambda$start$0(SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.java:47)
10:46:56    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
10:46:56    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
10:46:56    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
10:46:56    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
10:46:56    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
10:46:56  Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git reset --hard" returned status code 128:
10:46:56  stdout: 
10:46:56  stderr: error: Sparse checkout leaves no entry on working directory
10:46:56  fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'HEAD'.
10:46:56  
10:46:56    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2430)
10:46:56    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2360)
10:46:56    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2356)
10:46:56    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommand(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1916)
10:46:56    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.reset(CliGitAPIImpl.java:635)
10:46:56    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.clean(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1006)
10:46:56    at hudson.plugins.git.extensions.impl.CleanBeforeCheckout.decorateFetchCommand(CleanBeforeCheckout.java:44)
10:46:56    at hudson.plugins.git.extensions.GitSCMExtension.decorateFetchCommand(GitSCMExtension.java:288)
10:46:56    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:905)
10:46:56    ... 11 more
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // timestamps
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // node
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // stage
[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
Finished: FAILURE

Then I removed the sparse checkout extension

Jenkins pipeline After:

pipeline {
  agent none
    parameters {
      string(name: 'CommitID', defaultValue: '', description: 'This is to take the commitID for checkout')
      choice choices: ['FRST', 'QA', 'PROD'], description: 'Please select the environment to which the package needs to be deployed', name: 'depServer'
  }
  options {
        buildDiscarder logRotator(artifactDaysToKeepStr: '', artifactNumToKeepStr: '', daysToKeepStr: '', numToKeepStr: '5')
  }
  stages {
    stage('CodePull-Linux') {
      agent {
        node {
          label 'Master'
        }
      }
      steps {
        timestamps() {
            echo "Hello"
          // Checkout code from github incase commitID from the past is given
checkout([$class: 'GitSCM', branches: [[name: "${params.CommitID}"]], doGenerateSubmoduleConfigurations: false, extensions: [[$class: 'CleanBeforeCheckout']], submoduleCfg: [], userRemoteConfigs: [[credentialsId: 'fceddep', url: 'git@github.ford.com:FC-MIS/DS_FCNA_GDW.git']]])
          
        }
      }
    }
  }

I still get error related to sparse checkout

Running on Jenkins in /var/jenkins_home/workspace/DEV/INFMD/DS_Deploy_test
[Pipeline] {
[Pipeline] timestamps
[Pipeline] {
[Pipeline] echo
11:00:35  Hello
[Pipeline] checkout
11:00:35  using credential fceddep
11:00:35   > git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree # timeout=10
11:00:35  Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
11:00:35   > git config remote.origin.url git@github.ford.com:FC-MIS/DS_FCNA_GDW.git # timeout=10
11:00:35  Cleaning workspace
11:00:35   > git rev-parse --verify HEAD # timeout=10
11:00:35  Resetting working tree
11:00:35   > git reset --hard # timeout=10
11:00:35  ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
11:00:35  hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from git@github.ford.com:FC-MIS/DS_FCNA_GDW.git
11:00:35    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:909)
11:00:35    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1131)
11:00:35    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1167)
11:00:35    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep.checkout(SCMStep.java:125)
11:00:35    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep$StepExecutionImpl.run(SCMStep.java:93)
11:00:35    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep$StepExecutionImpl.run(SCMStep.java:80)
11:00:35    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.lambda$start$0(SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.java:47)
11:00:35    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
11:00:35    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
11:00:35    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
11:00:35    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
11:00:35    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
11:00:35  Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git reset --hard" returned status code 128:
11:00:35  stdout: 
11:00:35  stderr: error: Sparse checkout leaves no entry on working directory
11:00:35  fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'HEAD'.
11:00:35  
11:00:35    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2430)
11:00:35    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2360)
11:00:35    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2356)
11:00:35    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommand(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1916)
11:00:35    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.reset(CliGitAPIImpl.java:635)
11:00:35    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.clean(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1006)
11:00:35    at hudson.plugins.git.extensions.impl.CleanBeforeCheckout.decorateFetchCommand(CleanBeforeCheckout.java:44)
11:00:35    at hudson.plugins.git.extensions.GitSCMExtension.decorateFetchCommand(GitSCMExtension.java:288)
11:00:35    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:905)
11:00:35    ... 11 more
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // timestamps
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // node
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // stage
[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
Finished: FAILURE

Please let me know if I am missing something here. Thank you!

I think the cause is `Failed to fetch from git@github.ford.com:FC-MIS/DS_FCNA_GDW.git`. What is `$USER` that runs the pipeline? Has its ssh public key been added to github? — ElpieKay, Jul 27 '20 at 15:33
I am using the user configured in Jenkins credentials, that user is able to extract files when i use SCM pipeline, but explicit checkout fails with the above error (both in SCM pipeline and seperate script). I am trying to reset the user ID password in parallel to see if it helps. — Arpit, Jul 27 '20 at 16:09
By the way does it matter which user runs the pipeline? Irrespective of user running the pipeline, I have configured the job to use only one ID to checkout. Also, why should the error be on sparse checkout even when I remove that extension? — Arpit, Jul 27 '20 at 16:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 31 '20 at 22:27

I did not figure out the root cause for this behavior yet. However I was able to get past this error by deleting the job and creating another one with same script. Not sure if some old runs were messing with the new ones in workspace.

Thank you all!

Sparse checkout leaves no entry on working directory

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