From 1cabf61ddf96b89c95c3ba77a985168184920feb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Erik=20Pedersen?= Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:34:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] modules: Add some help text to the 'unknown revision' error I had a head scratching moment with this myself, so it's safe to say that others will. See #6825 --- modules/client.go | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/modules/client.go b/modules/client.go index 8d9bf876..4a45c97f 100644 --- a/modules/client.go +++ b/modules/client.go @@ -627,7 +627,14 @@ func (c *Client) runGo( if strings.Contains(stderr.String(), "invalid version: unknown revision") { // See https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/6825 - c.logger.Println(`hugo: you need to manually edit go.mod to resolve the unknown revision.`) + c.logger.Println(`An unknown resivion most likely means that someone has deleted the remote ref (e.g. with a force push to GitHub). +To resolve this, you need to manually edit your go.mod file and replace the version for the module in question with a valid ref. + +The easiest is to just enter a valid branch name ther, e.g. master, which would be the what you put in place of 'v0.5.1' in the example below. + +require github.com/gohugoio/hugo-mod-jslibs/instantpage v0.5.1 + +If you then run 'hugo mod graph' it should resolve itself to the most recent version (or commit if no semver versions).`) } _, ok := err.(*exec.ExitError)