git is not installed in Ubuntu and Windows Runner images

[devarshgandhi]

Describe the bug
git is not installed in Ubuntu 22.04 runner images.
http://ghcr.io/actions/actions-runner:latest

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Launch a Runner
2. Check if git is installed or not.
3. Documentation describes git as installed tool

Expected behavior
Git should be installed in windows and Linux runners.

It's not listed in https://github.com/actions/runner-images/releases/tag/ubuntu22%2F20231115.7 and our testing is implying that it's not installed. In fact, it seems like only Mac images have Git installed; I don't see them listed for Windows either.

Runner Version and Platform

Version of your runner?
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/releases/tag/ubuntu22%2F20231115.7

OS of the machine running the runner? OSX/Windows/Linux/...
Linux
Windows

What's not working?

ls /usr/bin there is no git and if I whereis git , I don't find anything. That said, I was able to sudo apt install git --yes` and that worked, but would be nice to avoid that.

Job Log Output

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Runner and Worker's Diagnostic Logs

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[kpocius]

I believe you might be mixing up two things: actions runner and runner images. This repo is for actions runner:

The runner is the application that runs a job from a GitHub Actions workflow.

Whereas you're linking to runner images repo, which contains the code used to create runner images, but the images aren't published publicly -- they are used in hosted GitHub runners, but if you want to run it yourself, you have to build it yourself.

However, I do agree, that it would be nice to have git installed by default in actions-runnerimages, especially since it's the default image for actions runner controller.

[ruvceskistefan]

Hey @devarshgandhi,
This issue does not seem to be a problem with the runner application, it concerns the GitHub actions platform more generally. Could you please post your feedback on the GitHub Community Support Forum which is actively monitored. Using the forum ensures that we route your problem to the correct team. 😃