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How to tell gitlab-runner to use this specific git installation, e.g. at /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/git?

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I am using a gitlab-runner with shell executor to build docker images. However the pipeline already fails at the beginning with

fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

This is clearly related to this question. There are also good solution metioned in this answer.

One of them is to install a newer version of git. The current git --version gives git version 1.8.3.1 which is the system default. On the same machine I have GitLab running which comes with a newer version of git.

Via gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info I find that a newer git (/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/git) is already installed, /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/git --version gives git version 2.32.0.

Attempts

I already tried adding

environment = ["PATH=/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin:$PATH"]

to the specific [[runner]] in my /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml but this seems to overwrite PATH completely (the pipeline fails with some mkdir not found error).

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  • You miss at least a $ at :PATH. Here, you totally wreck the path variable with a constant 'PATH' string. Commented Aug 25, 2021 at 9:18
  • @amanin Well spotted, I already corrected the typo. I still have the same issue with the correct :$PATH. Commented Aug 25, 2021 at 9:23
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