"Fatal error: git failed" in postCreateCommand on python3.11

[pamelafox]

"Fatal error: git failed" in postCreateCommand on python3.11

[pamelafox]

I have never been able to replicate the issue personally, I've only gotten multiple reports from users across different repositories with similar postCreateCommand's. I believe both cases were local dev containers. I'll find out their OS.

[samruddhikhandale]

Hi 👋

@pamelafox Are you able to reproduce the issue today? Also, does the issue appears consistently?

I tried reproducing with the https://github.com/Azure-Samples/ai-rag-chat-evaluator repository, the codespace was created fine with successfully executed lifecycle commands.

[langestefan]

Hello, I have also been struggling with this issue for the past few months and have not been able to solve it.

The following project has this issue: https://github.com/langestefan/python-package-template

I am currently testing this on windows 11, but the issue was also present on ubuntu and mint at some point.

- Edit: -

It seems to be caused by files going corrupt when rebuilding the container. I had a bunch of permission denied errors from git status. Running ll revealed files with permissions looking like this:

drwxr-xr-x 
??????????  
drwxr-xr-x
?????????? 

Rebuilding the container, or rebuilding without cache didn't solve this. So I deleted the project and pulled it from git, now git status was working as expected again. I was then also able to use git normally. Let's see for how long this keeps working.

- Edit 2: -

Made a new repository based on my template, issue is back. It seems related to this: microsoft/vscode-remote-release#7628