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Provide error response when failure occurs fetching Git tags
eimhin-rover Jul 18, 2025
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eimhin-rover Jul 19, 2025
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Use alternative approach due to --fail-with-body only being available…
eimhin-rover Jul 21, 2025
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Merge branch 'main' into improve-git-version-error
AlvaroRausell Aug 12, 2025
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/git/devcontainer-feature.json
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{
"id": "git",
"version": "1.3.4",
"version": "1.3.5",
"name": "Git (from source)",
"documentationURL": "https://github.com/devcontainers/features/tree/main/src/git",
"description": "Install an up-to-date version of Git, built from source as needed. Useful for when you want the latest and greatest features. Auto-detects latest stable version and installs needed dependencies.",
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11 changes: 10 additions & 1 deletion src/git/install.sh
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# Partial version matching
if [ "$(echo "${GIT_VERSION}" | grep -o '\.' | wc -l)" != "2" ]; then
requested_version="${GIT_VERSION}"
version_list="$(curl -sSL -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" "https://api.github.com/repos/git/git/tags" | grep -oP '"name":\s*"v\K[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+"' | tr -d '"' | sort -rV )"
response_output_file=$(mktemp)
trap 'rm "$response_output_file"' EXIT

http_code=$(curl --silent --output $response_output_file --write-out "%{http_code}" -sSL -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" "https://api.github.com/repos/git/git/tags")
version_content=$(cat "$response_output_file")
if [[ ${http_code} -lt 200 || ${http_code} -gt 299 ]] ; then
echo "$version_content" >&2
exit 1
fi
version_list="$(echo "$version_content" | grep -oP '"name":\s*"v\K[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+"' | tr -d '"' | sort -rV )"
if [ "${requested_version}" = "latest" ] || [ "${requested_version}" = "lts" ] || [ "${requested_version}" = "current" ]; then
GIT_VERSION="$(echo "${version_list}" | head -n 1)"
else
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