Please add `git` to base image so it can be used in CI

[dhirschfeld]

Forcing users to install git on every single invocation of CI is unnecessarily slow.

I think any image intended to be used in CI should have a git installation available by default. In this case I'd probably install it via pixi global so that in CI you can pixi global update git to get the latest and greatest if you want/need.

[dhirschfeld]

Yes, this is a duplicate of:

• Request: Add git to support git+https://github.com/... package sources #41

...but I'm opening a separate issue as I think the problem is much more fundamental that needing git to install source dependencies. In CI, the first thing you do is clone the repository. This image can't be used in CI as-is without an intial install git step. I think that should not be necessary.

[pavelzw]

the usual workflow in ci is that you clone the repo using actions/checkout and then do docker build . (or use the docker build action). otherwise you don't even have access to the dockerfile (equivalent thing for gitlab as well)

i guess if you are cloning a foreign repository and running pixi install there, you would do that inside of docker but i would consider this a niche use case (or basically the same as #41)

[dhirschfeld]

I'm thinking of the self-hosted runner use-case. actions/checkout doesn't work without git either:
https://github.com/actions/checkout/blob/main/src/git-command-manager.ts#L672