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Troubleshooting git

Sparse checkout does not work.

Apparently some university deployed a non working git 1.7.4 client. This results in sparse checkout misbehavior. Using 1.7.4.1 or later seems to fix the issue.

Missing public key.

In case you get the following message:

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

you forgot to register your ssh key when you registered to github, you can do it by going to https://github.com/settings/ssh and adding your public key there.

My repository and the official CMSSW repository seem to be completely different!

This probably means that you did not reset your fork on the 26th of June, when the git migration started. All the copies of the repository before that are to be considered obsolete.

You can check you have the correct fork by looking at your repository page, https://github.com/<username>/cmssw, if it shows that you have forked from the repository called cms-sw/cmssw-old it means that you need to fork again.

old-fork

You can fix this by deleting your current fork (look under the settings directory), and then fork again.