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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"upload-sarif: `git call failed.` more times than necessary for a working directory without a git repository","articleBody":"https://github.com/github/codeql-action/blob/f67ec12472e1b361f5e1e2085f5e6f85a57e3cd6/src/git-utils.ts#L87\n\nhttps://github.com/check-spelling-sandbox/skipper/actions/runs/20649925837/job/59292941788\n\n```js\nRun github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@7434149006143a4d75b82a2f411ef15b03ccc2d7\ngit call failed. Continuing with commit SHA from user input or environment. Error: The checkout path provided to the action does not appear to be a git repository.\nUploading code scanning results\n  Processing sarif files: [\"cifuzz-sarif/results.sarif\"]\n  Validating cifuzz-sarif/results.sarif\n  Adding fingerprints to SARIF file. See https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/code-security/code-scanning/integrating-with-code-scanning/sarif-support-for-code-scanning#providing-data-to-track-code-scanning-alerts-across-runs for more information.\n  (node:12002) [DEP0169] DeprecationWarning: `url.parse()` behavior is not standardized and prone to errors that have security implications. Use the WHATWG URL API instead. CVEs are not issued for `url.parse()` vulnerabilities.\n  (Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)\n  git call failed. Continuing with commit SHA from user input or environment. Error: The checkout path provided to the action does not appear to be a git repository.\n  git call failed. Continuing with commit SHA from user input or environment. Error: The checkout path provided to the action does not appear to be a git repository.\n  git call failed. Will calculate the base branch SHA on the server. Error: The checkout path provided to the action does not appear to be a git repository.\n  Uploading results\n  Successfully uploaded results\nWaiting for processing to finish\ngit call failed. Continuing with commit SHA from user input or environment. Error: The checkout path provided to the action does not appear to be a git repository.\n```\n\nIdeally, the action should be able to \"quickly\" determine that there isn't a repository checked out and not waste additional time running git commands.\n\nNote that this flow (using google/clusterfuzzlite/actions/run_fuzzers and then ideally uploading sarif output) is a flow that people expect to be able to do (yes, Google is missing documentation for how to do it, but...).","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jsoref","@type":"Person","name":"jsoref"},"datePublished":"2026-01-02T04:26:06.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/3383/codeql-action/issues/3383"}