feat(workers/global): check git at startup

[olegkrivtsov]

Changes:

Check Git version at startup #11167. It requires testing on Windows CI as discussed previously.

Context:

Closes #11167

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[viceice]

just a small thing

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[bytestream]

What specifically in git 2.33.0 is required? It's not available in Debian stable repositories https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/git

[rarkins]

Blobless clone filtering and improvements to enable sparse checkout. This requirement cannot be relaxed and has previously been documented, but now it's finally detected at startup

[HansAarneLiblik]

Do you prefer anyone that uses renovate on debian image to use some unstable / testing versions of the image or compile git themselves ?
Perhaps this check can be disabled in self-hosted environments?

[rarkins]

Do you prefer anyone that uses renovate on debian image to use some unstable / testing versions of the image or compile git themselves ?

Compile git yourselves, or run it as a Docker image instead. Renovate heavily uses git, and will continue to utilize quite recent versions going forward, and this is therefore a requirement of using Renovate.

Perhaps this check can be disabled in self-hosted environments?

No, because we need functionality from the minimum version of git specified. Without it, people will sometimes get weird errors and waste both their time and ours trying to work out why.

[evanrich]

This fails in node:17 image based on bullseye, and an apt update/upgrade shows the latest git version is installed. short of now producing your own images, you cannot go further until the git binary has been updated.

bullseye: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/git

[viceice]

Use renovate/node image.

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#13026 (reply in thread)

[rarkins]

git 2.33.0 has been a documented requirement since 27.0.0