remote: git: 'lariat' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

[heldrida]

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For some reason started getting the error "remote: git: 'lariat' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.". Seems to be on github's side of things for some reason.

on:
 push:
    branches:
      - main
      - develop
 pull_request:

jobs:
 code-format:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    defaults:
      run:
        shell: bash
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}

[chriswheeler]

I'm also getting this, with any git commands which use Github (pull, fetch etc):

git fetch
remote: git: 'lariat' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
fatal: protocol error: bad pack header

Using git version 2.40

[heldrida]

They have fixed it now!

[chriswheeler]

So they have, how curios.... back to fixing my merge conflicts!

[heldrida]

So they have, how curios.... back to fixing my merge conflicts!

Hahah! Happens! I spent some trying to figure out what was going on.

[gcentauri]

SUS

[zwippie]

Also got this strange error. I would really like to hear the explanation of this.

The only reference to 'lariat' I could find is https://github.com/Zetier/lariat

[blockjon-dd]

github was down earlier

[abejfehr]

I'd love a response here to say why this happened.

There's an entry in the Github Status page but it's very light on details

[KhamessiTaha]

[tredontho]

This isn't something people are trying to run, which is why it's confusing/concerning

[abejfehr]

For context, there was a period of ~5 minutes or so where every git command that interacted with GH's remote gave this error, here's an example on React's repo: https://github.com/facebook/react/actions/runs/11035832469/job/30652813706

[shay-legit]

this is very sus 😟 happened across multiple clients/repos. more detailed official response would be helpful.

[dg0yt]

actions/checkout#1916

[terrorobe]

This error message was caused by an incident:

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/q3xqwmcxzkqq

On September 25, 2024 from 14:31 UTC to 15:06 UTC the Git Operations service experienced a degradation, leading to 1,381,993 failed git operations. The overall error rate during this period was 4.2%, with a peak error rate of 12.5%.

The root cause was traced to a bug in a build script for a component that runs on the file servers that host git repository data. The build script incurred an error that did not cause the overall build process to fail, resulting in a faulty set of artifacts being deployed to production.

To mitigate the impact, we rolled back the affecting deployment.

To prevent further occurrences of this cause in the future, we will be addressing the underlying cause of the ignored build failure and improving metrics and alerting for the resulting production failure scenarios.