Issue with working dir when deploying AzurewebApp Azure Repos (hugo app)

Question

Hi,

When deploying this through Azure Devops with pipelines we get the following:

Failed to read Git log: fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/working_dir'
To add an exception for this directory, call:

	git config --global --add safe.directory /working_dir

Our Pipeline looks like this:

name: Azure Static Web Apps CI/CD


pr:
  branches:
    include:
      - main
trigger:
  branches:
    include:
      - main

jobs:
- job: build_and_deploy_job
  displayName: Build and Deploy Job
  condition: or(eq(variables['Build.Reason'], 'Manual'),or(eq(variables['Build.Reason'], 'PullRequest'),eq(variables['Build.Reason'], 'IndividualCI')))
  pool:
    vmImage: ubuntu-latest
  variables:
  - group: Azure-Static-Web-Apps-ashy-ground-0a0ce9a03-variable-group
  steps:
  - checkout: self
    submodules: true
  - task: AzureStaticWebApp@0
    env:
      PRE_BUILD_COMMAND: git config --global --add safe.directory /github/workspace
    inputs:
      azure_static_web_apps_api_token: $(AZURE_STATIC_WEB_APPS_API_TOKEN_ASHY_GROUND_0A0CE9A03)
###### Repository/Build Configurations - These values can be configured to match your app requirements. ######
# For more information regarding Static Web App workflow configurations, please visit: https://aka.ms/swaworkflowconfig
      app_location: "/" # App source code path
      api_location: "" # Api source code path - optional
      output_location: "public" # Built app content directory - optional
###### End of Repository/Build Configurations ######
    

Answer 1

Hi @BGBSAV ,

Are you the owner of the directory? the error you're getting is usually caused by a discrepancy between a user running the Git command and the owner of the directory where the repository is located.

Based on your pipeline configuration, it looks like you already added a PRE_BUILD_COMMAND to set a safe.directory in Git’s global configuration:

env:
  PRE_BUILD_COMMAND: git config --global --add safe.directory /github/workspace

However, the error message suggests that Git is detecting incorrect ownership at /working_dir. I suggest trying the following:

1. move the PRE_BUILD_COMMAND env variable to run before the Azure static web app deployment task.
2. adjust your PRE_BUILD_COMMAND to add /working_dir This command tells Git to skip the ownership check for /working_dir, which should resolve the issue.

env:
  PRE_BUILD_COMMAND: git config --global --add safe.directory /working_dir

Please let us know if you have further questions.

-Grace