Re: Anyone know why git ls-remote output might be corrupted?

[Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>]

On Fri, 2023-06-02 at 16:02 -0400, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:
> > > Does your CI/CD system use sparse checkout or depth=1 or some
> > > other partial clone?
> > 
> > Yes, the local copy of the repo is a sparse checkout.
> > 
> > I'm surprised that matters to ls-remote... I would have expected
> > that the "sparseness" of the local repo is irrelevant when listing
> > the state of the remote's heads?
> 
> I'm just wondering whether this might be an impact somehow and adding
> info to help the team diagnose. I have seen other commands have some
> issues in the past with --depth=n

I see.  Well I can try changing my call to avoid the local repo in any
way, and run 'git ls-remote --heads user@server:reponame' from a
temporary directory outside of any repo, rather than using "origin".

I would be surprised if it makes a difference but the behavior is sure
strange enough that I wouldn't be THAT surprised :)