"fatal: Needed a single revision" - init-repository not working

[deleted415]

Hi,
I was trying to clone the qt repository from https://github.com/qt/qt5.
But I get the following error. I already deleted the directory two times and tried it again. Still the same error.

I don't if this is relevant but on my first try I switched to the dev branch and then started the init-repository script. That gave me a similar error and I read somewhere that it's important to run the script first. May git cached something somewhere? I'm no good with git so I have no idea. Especially since it's been called from script.

+ git clone --no-checkout https://github.com/qt/qtlocation-mapboxgl.git src/3rdparty/mapbox-gl-native
Cloning into 'src/3rdparty/mapbox-gl-native'...
remote: Counting objects: 150328, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (588/588), done.
remote: Total 150328 (delta 759), reused 982 (delta 633), pack-reused 149033
Receiving objects: 100% (150328/150328), 154.35 MiB | 1.33 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (103293/103293), done.
+ git config remote.gerrit.url ssh://codereview.qt-project.org/qt/qtlocation-mapboxgl.git
+ git config remote.gerrit.fetch +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/gerrit/* /heads/
+ git submodule update --force --no-fetch
fatal: Needed a single revision
Unable to find current revision in submodule path 'src/3rdparty/mapbox-gl-native'
git submodule update --force --no-fetch exited with status 256 at ./init-repository line 198.
	Qt::InitRepository::exe('Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0x7fa1e0803ff0)', 'git', 'submodule', 'update', '--force', '--no-fetch') called at ./init-repository line 429
	Qt::InitRepository::git_clone_all_submodules('Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0x7fa1e0803ff0)', 'qtlocation.git', 0, 'all') called at ./init-repository line 435
	Qt::InitRepository::git_clone_all_submodules('Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0x7fa1e0803ff0)', 'qt5', 0, 'preview', 'essential', 'addon', 'deprecated') called at ./init-repository line 644
	Qt::InitRepository::run('Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0x7fa1e0803ff0)') called at ./init-repository line 655

Thanks for any help!

[sierdzio]

Please follow this guide.

Most notably, clone from official repo. Init-repository may be expecting that.

git clone git://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git

[deleted415]

Thanks, that helped.
I was able to compile qt from source now.