From: Tom Cook <tom.k.cook@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:39:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: All git operations fail when .git contains a non-existent gitdir
Message-ID: <CAFSh4UySxQLS10M4XJHyNQ313wuLu1rg2Jnahf-Dk2uxJkw17w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D8703D8-54E6-4CF0-9E9F-CCAFFAA8914C@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 9:23 AM Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not too familiar with this area, and I don't know how feasible it is to
> delay setting up the environment until after looking at the 'ls-remote'
> arguments. At a cursory glance, it looks difficult to do without large
> structural changes to the code.

Understood.  This happened to bite us particularly hard, because the
context where we found it is during a `go mod download` and `go`
swallows the error, attempts something else and then reports that the
something else failed with no indication what the underlying error is.
It took us a while to track down what was going on (see
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/47311).