Re: git-clone fails when current user is not in /etc/passwd

> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Taylor Braun-Jones
>> <taylor@braun-jones.org> wrote:
>>> My use case it running git clone inside a docker container with
>>> `docker run --user $(id -u):$(id -g) --volume /foo:/foo ...`. I want
>>> all /foo/* file creation/access from inside the Docker container to be
>>> done as the current uid/gid of the host system.
>>>
>>> Steps to reproduce:
>>>
>>> mkdir /tmp/docker-git
>>> cat > /tmp/docker-git/Dockerfile <<EOF
>>> FROM ubuntu
>>> RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git-core
>>> EOF
>>> docker build -t git /tmp/docker-git/
>>> docker run --user $(id -u):$(id -g) git git clone
>>> https://github.com/git/git.git /tmp/git
>>> # fatal: unable to look up current user in the passwd file: no such user
>>
>> It probably helps if you could get the stack trace to this message
>> (printed from function xgetpwuid_self). I haven't checked if my
>> personal laptop has docker to reproduce this.. In general we won't ask
>> passwd if the user specifies name/email in the config file. But I
>> still don't see why git-clone needs that info in the first place.
>
> Well.. reflog needs it. So either you disable reflog at clone time or
> define name/email via config file. I don't see anything wrong with
> this behavior.