[vcpkg-tool] vcpkg install fails if baseline is newer than reference

[bansan85]

Describe the bug

You have a buggy vcpkg-configuration.json and a registry's kind git.

You wrongly set reference to a branch that is older than baseline.

vcpkg install will fails with error like:

error: no version database entry for catch2 at 3.7.0.
Available versions:
  3.1.0
...

Vcpkg reads versions/baseline.json at reference branch, then checkout at baseline and finally try to install latest package. Since baseline has versions that reference doesn't have, vcpkg complains.

Error is tricky so I think that vcpkg should check that baseline commit is not newer than master branch.

Failure logs

Log with --debug

[DEBUG] To include the environment variables in debug output, pass --debug-env
[DEBUG] Trying to load bundleconfig from D:\tmp\vcpkg-tool\build\Debug\vcpkg-bundle.json
[DEBUG] Failed to open: D:\tmp\vcpkg-tool\build\Debug\vcpkg-bundle.json
[DEBUG] Bundle config: readonly=false, usegitregistry=false, embeddedsha=nullopt, deployment=Git, vsversion=nullopt
[DEBUG] Metrics enabled.
[DEBUG] Feature flag 'binarycaching' unset
[DEBUG] Feature flag 'compilertracking' unset
[DEBUG] Feature flag 'registries' unset
[DEBUG] Feature flag 'versions' unset
[DEBUG] Feature flag 'dependencygraph' unset
[DEBUG] Using scripts-root: D:\vcpkg\scripts
[DEBUG] Using builtin-ports: D:\vcpkg\ports
[DEBUG] Using installed-root: D:\repos\urx\build\vcpkg_installed
[DEBUG] Using buildtrees-root: D:\vcpkg\buildtrees
[DEBUG] Using packages-root: D:\vcpkg\packages
[DEBUG] Using manifest-root: D:\repos\urx
[DEBUG] Using vcpkg-root: D:\vcpkg
[DEBUG] Using builtin-registry: D:\vcpkg\versions
[DEBUG] Using downloads-root: D:\vcpkg\downloads
[DEBUG] External asset downloads are allowed (x-block-origin is disabled)...
[DEBUG] Asset cache is not configured.
[DEBUG] Detecting host with IsWow64Process2
[DEBUG] Found path: C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe
[DEBUG] 1000: CreateProcessW("C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe" --version)
[DEBUG] 1000: cmd_execute_and_stream_data() returned 0 after   110715 us
[DEBUG] 1001: CreateProcessW("C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe" "--git-dir=C:\Users\v.legarrec\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git\.git" "--work-tree=C:\Users\v.legarrec\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git" -c core.autocrlf=false show 2f210a9c13fcf2b0c36b1f2187366feec37e3390:versions/baseline.json)
[DEBUG] 1001: cmd_execute_and_stream_data() returned 0 after   128683 us
[DEBUG] Failed to open: D:\repos\urx\build\vcpkg_installed\vcpkg\vcpkg-lock.json
[DEBUG] Failed to load lockfile: no such file or directory
Fetching registry information from d:/vcpkg/.git (HEAD)...
[DEBUG] 1002: CreateProcessW("C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe" "--git-dir=C:\Users\v.legarrec\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git\.git" "--work-tree=C:\Users\v.legarrec\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git" -c core.autocrlf=false init)
[DEBUG] 1002: cmd_execute_and_stream_data() returned 0 after    94124 us
[DEBUG] 1003: CreateProcessW("C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe" "--git-dir=C:\Users\v.legarrec\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git\.git" "--work-tree=C:\Users\v.legarrec\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git" -c core.autocrlf=false fetch --update-shallow -- d:/vcpkg/.git HEAD)
[DEBUG] 1003: cmd_execute_and_stream_data() returned 0 after  1920715 us
[DEBUG] 1004: CreateProcessW("C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe" "--git-dir=C:\Users\v.legarrec\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git\.git" "--work-tree=C:\Users\v.legarrec\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git" -c core.autocrlf=false rev-parse FETCH_HEAD)
[DEBUG] 1004: cmd_execute_and_stream_data() returned 0 after    67406 us
[DEBUG] 1005: CreateProcessW("C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe" "--git-dir=C:\Users\v.legarrec\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git\.git" "--work-tree=C:\Users\v.legarrec\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git" -c core.autocrlf=false rev-parse 46798970f06b38f255953864e3a5a5e2045b7e66:versions)
[DEBUG] 1005: cmd_execute_and_stream_data() returned 0 after    77921 us
[DEBUG] Loading dep info for: urx:x64-wsmep
[DEBUG] Found path: C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe
[DEBUG] 1006: CreateProcessW("C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" --version)
[DEBUG] 1006: cmd_execute_and_stream_data() returned 0 after    86724 us
[DEBUG] 1007: CreateProcessW("C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -DVCPKG_ROOT_DIR=D:/vcpkg -DPACKAGES_DIR=D:/vcpkg/packages -DBUILDTREES_DIR=D:/vcpkg/buildtrees -D_VCPKG_INSTALLED_DIR=D:/repos/urx/build/vcpkg_installed -DDOWNLOADS=D:/vcpkg/downloads -DVCPKG_MANIFEST_INSTALL=OFF -P "D:\vcpkg\buildtrees\0.vcpkg_dep_info.cmake")
[DEBUG] 1007: cmd_execute_and_stream_data() returned 0 after    60233 us
error: no version database entry for catch2 at 3.7.0.
Available versions:
  3.1.0
  3.0.1#2
  3.0.1#1
  3.0.1
  2.13.9#1
  2.13.9
  2.13.8#1

Additional context

In my case, I cloned vcpkg locally (in d:/vcpkg) to speedup fetching.

My problem is that I fetched but I don't checkout -B main origin/main so my reference branch became older than my baseline commit.