Unshallowing a Git repository

GitLab allows to perform shallow repository clones (and it seems to be the default in recent versions from what I can tell).

In order to run r10k, I need a full repository though, because r10k will copy it to cache and use this copy as a reference. This is what happens when you use a shallow repository:

 [2020-05-08 06:53:15 - DEBUG] Replacing /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/modulesync_update and checking out modulesync_update
 [2020-05-08 06:53:56 - ERROR] Command exited with non-zero exit code:
 Command: git clone /builds/camptocamp/is/puppet/puppetmaster-c2c /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/modulesync_update --reference /etc/puppetlabs/code/cache/-builds-camptocamp-is-puppet-puppetmaster-c2c
 Stderr:
 Cloning into '/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/modulesync_update'...
 fatal: reference repository '/etc/puppetlabs/code/cache/-builds-camptocamp-is-puppet-puppetmaster-c2c' is shallow
 Exit code: 128
 [2020-05-08 06:53:56 - DEBUG] Purging unmanaged environments for deployment...

Git provides a fetch --unshallow command which solves the problem, so we just need to run git fetch --unshallow in the repository before running r10k.

However, some of our (older) GitLab installs don't make shallow clones. Instead, they make full clones with a single detached branch, so we need fetch --all instead.

In order to have it work in all configurations, I'm ending up running:

git fetch --unshallow || git fetch --all

And then run r10k on the repository.

Comments

[Artur Trzop]

Thanks. This was helpful.