Bug Report

When I look at the clone inside my container created by concourse (CC) for unit testing, I see a git config that is incorrect (or at least inflexible). The config prevents me from being able to fetch branches.

I want to use a passed-unit-tests branch in my repo-under-test and have CC rebase the passed-unit-tests branch on the tested branch. Then push the passed-unit-test branch back to origin. In this way, I can record in github that the UT passed on the tested commit.

I am unable to git fetch passed-unit-tests or any other branch other than develop.

Cause (.git/config):
fetch = +refs/heads/develop:refs/remotes/origin/develop
Solution:
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

A snippit that works around the issue it in my bash script:

      40     info "+++ Remove git origin"
      41     git remote rm origin               || die "git remote rm origin failed"
      42
      43     info "+++ Add git origin"
      44     git remote add origin \
      45         "https://github.com/$gh_user/cc_test_app.git" || die "Cannot add git origin"

Alternative work around, but needing to handle branches other than develop:

sed -i -- 's?fetch = +refs/heads/develop:refs/remotes/origin/develop?fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*?g' .git/config || die "git config fix failed"

Related to:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/945654/git-checkout-updating-paths-is-incompatible-with-switching-branches
See the answer from Jul 5 '13 at 9:33 PålOliver

• Concourse version: 3.6.0
• Deployment type (BOSH/Docker/binary): docker-compose
• Infrastructure/IaaS: None
• Browser (if applicable): N/A
• Did this used to work? No idea