How to fix or investigate this AcquiaDevDesktop error during import

Question

Got a new laptop, installed Acquia devDesktop, added my ssh key, refreshed Acquia Cloud sites, (for those unaware, Acquia devDesktop is just a lamp stack specific for Drupal)when I "Cloned dev site to local" i get the attached error.

I have googled around and have not found a reference to this error - Does anyone have any insight/assistance in resolving this?

I was able to clone the dev site to my local on my temporary laptop just two weeks ago without issue. Any suggestions, assistance would be greatly appreciated.

i took a shot and uninstall, then reinstalled, but receiving same error. Rolled back to the version installed on my previous laptop, same error.

Answer 1

Acquia mentions it may use libgit2 to communicate with Acquia Git repositories.

And parent is not a directory is more a libgit2 error message, as seen in libgit2/libgit2sharp issue 846.

The message does appear odd, I suspect it's as an effect of the implementation details for creating references.

What this message seems to indicate is that there is some reference already there which is a prefix of the path leading up to the one we are trying to create. The Git system cannot cope with this, but we should be providing a much better error message.

So check if you have a tag or branch named "release" already in your repo.