Hi,
Welcome to the community!
Only the latest version of SonarQube Community Build is considered active, so you’ll need to update and see if the situation is still replicable before we can help you.
Your update path is:
24.12 → 25.8
You may find these resources helpful:
- Update Guide
- SonarQube Community Build Update Notes (all update notes since the switch)
If you have questions about upgrading, feel free to open a new thread for that here.
Regarding your question, that’s an odd message to have in Community Build since it doesn’t support branches, reference or otherwise.
Ann