no .git folder

minikube Make uses git log for getting the commit sha for minikube version,

git log doesn’t work in checkouted source code

when I run git log --pretty=oneline I get this error:

 Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

[RaiBnod]

I was using self-hosted runner. And it had no .git folder showed me logs as below:

Getting Git version info
  Working directory is '/root/actions-runner/_work/<project>/<project>'
  /usr/bin/git version
  git version 2.17.1
The repository will be downloaded using the GitHub REST API
To create a local Git repository instead, add Git 2.18 or higher to the PATH
Downloading the archive
Writing archive to disk
Extracting the archive

This means, the repository got downloaded using the GitHub REST API, which meant to dowloaded differently.

So for debugging what’s going around, I tried on the ubuntu-latest instead of self-hosted and it showed me log something like this:

Getting Git version info
  Working directory is '/home/runner/work/<project>/<project>'
  /usr/bin/git version
  git version 2.28.0
Initializing the repository
  /usr/bin/git init /home/runner/work/<project>/<project>
  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/runner/work/<project>/<project>/.git/
  /usr/bin/git remote add origin https://github.com/<org>/<project>
Disabling automatic garbage collection
  /usr/bin/git config --local gc.auto 0

After comparing those two logs: one is using Git version: 2.17.1, and another one is using Git version: 2.28.0.

Hence, after updating the Git version (>= 2.18) into latest one, the issue got resolved in my case.

[pwoolvett]

Self hosted: upgrading git for debian-based distros:

sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common \
    && sudo apt-get update \
    && sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:git-core/ppa \
    && sudo apt-get update \
    && sudo apt-get install -y git

Either run it before the checkout action, or, if the runner is a docker container, add as a RUN command