repo sync problems while downloading android source

I know many of us came across this problem but no one really bothered to bring it up to notice and provide solution in public. It’s good to share small things even . It saves some time.

I guess the error that you might be facing is as followed.

File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/main.py”, line 235, in <module>

_Main(sys.argv[1:])

File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/main.py”, line 217, in _Main

repo._Run(argv)

File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/main.py”, line 123, in _Run

cmd.Execute(copts, cargs)

File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/subcmds/prune.py”, line 28, in Exec

for project in self.GetProjects(args):

File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/command.py”, line 63, in GetProject

all = self.manifest.projects

File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/manifest_xml.py”, line 169, in proj

self._Load()

File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/manifest_xml.py”, line 202, in _Loa

b = m.GetBranch(m.CurrentBranch).merge

File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/project.py”, line 271, in CurrentBr

b = self.work_git.GetHead()

File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/project.py”, line 1242, in GetHead

fd = open(path, ‘rb’)

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/m

File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/main.py”, line 235, in <module>    _Main(sys.argv[1:])  File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/main.py”, line 217, in _Main    repo._Run(argv)  File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/main.py”, line 123, in _Run    cmd.Execute(copts, cargs)  File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/subcmds/prune.py”, line 28, in Exec    for project in self.GetProjects(args):  File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/command.py”, line 63, in GetProject    all = self.manifest.projects  File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/manifest_xml.py”, line 169, in proj    self._Load()  File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/manifest_xml.py”, line 202, in _Loa    b = m.GetBranch(m.CurrentBranch).merge  File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/project.py”, line 271, in CurrentBr    b = self.work_git.GetHead()  File “/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/repo/project.py”, line 1242, in GetHead    fd = open(path, ‘rb’)IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/home/kaushik/beagledroid/.repo/m

The problem of this sort happens due to some stale version of repo sync performed.

Solution to that is to run the command ” repo prune” from the shell.

Detailed guide could be found at: http://source.android.com/download/using-repo