False error 'not a git repository' on docker build when app is in subdir or .git is in .dockerignore

[mkungla]

Description

RUN buffalo build --static -o /bin/app
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

but build succeeds.

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

Please describe in painful detail what you did (so others can play along with you) to get to this point. This includes things like the exact command(s) you used, or the curl command you used, that sort of thing.

1. app in subdir and use COPY ./app /app

Expected Behavior

no errors

Actual Behavior

fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Info

Please run buffalo info and paste the information below where it says "PASTE_HERE".

Buffalo version is: v0.16.14 

[leoromanovsky]

Related to: #2028

I fixed the issue locally by inserting:

RUN git init

Into my Dockerfile; will submit a PR.

[ghost]

Hi

[paganotoni]

This one is solved by v0.16.16