I have a github action workflow where I want to bundle my repository into a git bundle and then include it in a github release.
The bundling is done with the command,
git bundle create my-bundle.bundle --all
The bundle gets created correctly but when downloaded from the release page, the bundle cannot be unbundle. Instead I get the following error:
git clone .\my-bundle.bundle
Cloning into 'my-bundle'...
Receiving objects: 100% (294/294), 138.15 KiB | 19.73 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (26/26), done.
error: Could not read 53c23e17ab345ff12fd711ae4e8ce49d941fef7a
fatal: Failed to traverse parents of commit 110f058db5ba201d81669b4245709a9b18a813bd
fatal: remote did not send all necessary objects
I expect git clone .\my-bundle.bundle to create a directory called my-bundle which includes the whole git repository history.
I have verified that my computer uses the latest git version (the same which the workflow also uses, 2.39.2).
By default, GitHub Actions performs a shallow clone, which contains data for a single commit. This is much faster than cloning the entire repo, and is also cheaper on the server side.
If you don't need the history, then this is a win all around. However, if you do need the history, like in this case, then you need to indicate that like so:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
fetch-depth: 0