git pull error about action

[Andarist]

Well, we could move those lines further down:

action/src/run.ts

Lines 81 to 82 in bfeb9e0

	await gitUtils.pullBranch(branch);
	await gitUtils.push(branch, { includeTags: true });

but then you would encounter the problem when publishing packages, wouldn't you?

Do you have any guesses on why this fails for you? It looks quite bizarre - you are cloning a repository as the very first step of your workflow, so how git repository could not be found? 🤔

[ianwalter]

True. Only difference I can think of from the the example is that its running in a container and not directly on the vm and it's using Node 14.5 instead of LTS. I'll try printing the CWD and debugging later today.

[ianwalter]

It was because I was using the node:14.5 that uses Debian Stretch which has git < 2.18 and so the checkout action uses the GitHub API instead of git for whatever reason. I switched to node:14.5-buster and it worked, thanks!

[bbedward]

I came across the same thing, as an alternative if you need a stretch image you can do:

# Add stretch-backports for newer git 
RUN echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y -t stretch-backports git && \
         apt-get clean all && \
         rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*