Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sidenote: on GitHub CI, I could not demonstrate the failure on Linux > because all Linux jobs run in containers, and the images we use do > not have Git installed, such that actions/checkout@v4 uses the GitHub > API to download the repository instead of cloning it [3]. This leads > die_if_build_dir_not_repo from perf-lib.sh to fail with > "No $GIT_PERF_REPO defined, and your build directory is not a repo" [4]. > We could fix that by installing the 'git' package before the 'actions/checkout' > step, but we would need to account for the different package managers of > the distros we test on. Not limited to this topic, but wouldn't it make more sense to first run install-dependencies (including "/usr/bin/git") and then invoke the actions/checkout thing, I have to wonder. We were bitten by a separate topic due to the same issue quite recently. Thanks.
