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Ensure that you have setup your ssh keys on people.apache.org, otherwise you'll have to enter your login password a number of times (best use ssh-agent for this as well). A good overview of this process can be found here (ssh-copy-id and ssh-agent in particular)
Workaround: an open issue BIGTOP-1499 requires that the release repo is clean. You can either make a new clone; or remove everything non-related to the repo (including files and directories listed in .gitignore
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