200.4.0 package resolution failure

[dfeinzimer]

There've been several reports of an issue with resolving the 200.4 package due to Git LFS:

Couldn't check out revision
'a01f570fc225c2ada99913c3430cc42b948075f0':
git-lfs filter-process: git-lfs: command not found
fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly

[philium]

Adding symlink to LFS for Xcode

That seems unreasonable for us to expect customers to do, given that Git LFS is only used for testing.

[dfeinzimer]

That seems unreasonable for us to expect customers to do

Agreed and (thankfully?) it seems likely that fix was a false positive. From what I've heard from others and after more of my own testing the failure seems intermittent, with and without the symlink in place.

Edit: I'm going to pull it out of the description for now.

Edit 2: Maybe it's worth noting that simply cloning the repo via command line works consistently.

[dfeinzimer]

Seemingly related issue at swiftlang/swift-package-manager#5351. Discussion on Swift Forums here.

We might need to rethink including LFS for the time being. 🫤

[dfeinzimer]

I've prepared branch df/remove-lfs if we proceed with a patch. Samples is able to checkout this branch without issue.

[dfeinzimer]

A patch has been issued and the release has been re-published and re-tagged.

For anyone experiencing further issues the following files should be removed:

~/Library/Caches/org.swift.swiftpm
~/Library/org.swift.swiftpm

[dfeinzimer]

v200.5.0 succeeds 200.4.0 and is available now.