Huh, just fired up an old build on circleci and scratched my head for a long while about an auth failure fetching a :git/url dep. Thanks to the Clojurians Slack archive, I found the answer: https://clojurians-log.clojureverse.org/circleci/2020-12-28 Seems a bit bananas and mystical that we have to do that, but can’t complain too much about a free service!

(oh and thanks retroactively to @borkdude for the tip from the past)

I'd be interested in why that is the default now? (and clearly wasn't before)

@lee what is the error message that you with the git dependency? Can you link to the job that failed?

it has to do with a .gitconfig which rewrite https to ssh which then fails since for many gitlibs you don't have ssh access

this works for "fixing" it:

steps:
      - checkout
      - run:
          name: Get rid of erroneous git config
          command: |
              rm -rf ~/.gitconfig

Hiya @marc-omorain, https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/lread/diff-apis/20/workflows/ed38a680-5252-4c90-b0a4-1f2e7405c88c/jobs/22 prior to the @borkdude fix.

@marc-omorain here’s a Slack archive with a little more detail: https://clojurians-log.clojureverse.org/circleci/2020-11-29

👍

I’m trying to remember why we do that re-write. Afair it’s to maintain compatibility with CircleCI.

Over the years we have accumulated all sorts of quirky behavior that we can’t change without breaking folks who rely on the behavior.

@marc-omorain I wonder if any Clojure build would want this behaviour? If not, then the Clojure image generator could fix the issue maybe? Or if not… maybe just document a tip for how to overcome? https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/language-clojure/

Anyway, I’m not complaining, I do appreciate CircleCI’s commitment to open source!

Thanks!

Same here!