Keeping .git folder when deploying on Heroku?

[Unitech]

Hi,

Is it possible to keep the .git folder when deploying to Heroku? We need to do some processing based on the data in this folder.

heroku/legacy-cli#1509

Thanks!

[dmathieu]

Hi,

There is no way to do this at the moment. As @dickeyxxx mentioned, this would not be a very good idea either.
Furthermore, you aren't necessarily deploying from GIT. You could be using the platform API.
See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/build-and-release-using-the-api
So this would have a very limited usage.

What data do you need available in your deployed app?

[shackra]

This would be great for using with sentry with the --auto option which then would enable associating commits with issues there.

[fordnox]

Looking for a way to build hugo static website with --enableGitInfo flag.

heroku.yml

build:
  docker:
    web: Dockerfile

Dockerfile

FROM klakegg/hugo:0.73.0-ext-alpine
COPY . /src
RUN ls -la
RUN hugo --gc --minify --enableGitInfo --destination=/target

FROM nginx
COPY --from=hugo /target /usr/share/nginx/html
CMD nginx -g 'daemon off;'

output

...
Step 5/14 : RUN ls -la
 ---> Running in d9ecd9dc7c49
total 16
drwxrwxrwx    6 root     root           140 Jul 10 22:18 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            46 Jul 10 22:18 ..
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root            22 Jul 10 22:17 .gitignore
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root           568 Jul 10 22:17 Dockerfile
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root            24 Jul 10 22:17 archetypes
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root            94 Jul 10 22:17 config.toml
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root            22 Jul 10 22:17 content
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root            53 Jul 10 22:17 deploy
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root            37 Jul 10 22:17 heroku.yml
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     root            18 Jul 10 22:17 themes
Removing intermediate container d9ecd9dc7c49
 ---> c36ac5776b55
Step 6/14 : RUN hugo --gc --minify --enableGitInfo --destination=/target
 ---> Running in e1d737e9b58f
Building sites … ERROR 2020/07/10 22:18:42 Failed to read Git log: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Total in 59 ms
Error: Error building site: logged 1 error(s)
The command '/bin/sh -c hugo --gc --minify --enableGitInfo --destination=/target' returned a non-zero code: 255

the problem is that there is no .git folder in slug. Pages can not be built with metadata from .git

Any hints?

[fordnox]

found walkaround

FROM klakegg/hugo:0.73.0-ext-alpine as hugo
WORKDIR /source
RUN git clone https://github.com/fordnox/pixub.git . && \
    ls -la && \
    hugo --gc --minify --enableGitInfo --destination=/target

FROM nginx
COPY deploy/default.conf.template /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf.template
COPY deploy/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
COPY --from=hugo /target /usr/share/nginx/html
CMD /bin/sh -c "envsubst '\$PORT' < /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf.template > /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf" && nginx -g 'daemon off;'

not pretty but it works