ERROR git_cliff > Git error: `revspec 'latest' not found; class=Reference (4); code=NotFound (-3)`

[Gnyblast]

I have the below error even though I have latest tag created in my repo. And locally with git-cliff I cannot reproduce this error, everything works except the github-actions container.

/usr/bin/docker run --name e44620122e920d74735b4b09280c9c8f16d_539350 --label 096e44 --workdir /github/workspace --rm -e "INPUT_CONFIG" -e "INPUT_ARGS" -e "HOME" -e "GITHUB_JOB" -e "GITHUB_REF" -e "GITHUB_SHA" -e "GITHUB_REPOSITORY" -e "GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER" -e "GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER_ID" -e "GITHUB_RUN_ID" -e "GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER" -e "GITHUB_RETENTION_DAYS" -e "GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT" -e "GITHUB_REPOSITORY_ID" -e "GITHUB_ACTOR_ID" -e "GITHUB_ACTOR" -e "GITHUB_TRIGGERING_ACTOR" -e "GITHUB_WORKFLOW" -e "GITHUB_HEAD_REF" -e "GITHUB_BASE_REF" -e "GITHUB_EVENT_NAME" -e "GITHUB_SERVER_URL" -e "GITHUB_API_URL" -e "GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL" -e "GITHUB_REF_NAME" -e "GITHUB_REF_PROTECTED" -e "GITHUB_REF_TYPE" -e "GITHUB_WORKFLOW_REF" -e "GITHUB_WORKFLOW_SHA" -e "GITHUB_WORKSPACE" -e "GITHUB_ACTION" -e "GITHUB_EVENT_PATH" -e "GITHUB_ACTION_REPOSITORY" -e "GITHUB_ACTION_REF" -e "GITHUB_PATH" -e "GITHUB_ENV" -e "GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY" -e "GITHUB_STATE" -e "GITHUB_OUTPUT" -e "RUNNER_OS" -e "RUNNER_ARCH" -e "RUNNER_NAME" -e "RUNNER_ENVIRONMENT" -e "RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE" -e "RUNNER_TEMP" -e "RUNNER_WORKSPACE" -e "ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL" -e "ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN" -e "ACTIONS_CACHE_URL" -e "ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL" -e GITHUB_ACTIONS=true -e CI=true -v "/var/run/docker.sock":"/var/run/docker.sock" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_workflow":"/github/workflow" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_runner_file_commands":"/github/file_commands" -v "/home/runner/work/WallSync/WallSync":"/github/workspace" 096e44:620122e920d74735b4b09280c9c8f16d  "--config=cliff.toml" "latest.."
+ set -o noglob
++ stat -c %u:%g .
+ owner=1001:127
++ id -u
+ chown -R 0 .
+ OUTPUT=git-cliff/CHANGELOG.md
++ dirname git-cliff/CHANGELOG.md
+ mkdir -p git-cliff
++ echo --config=cliff.toml latest..
++ xargs
+ args='--config=cliff.toml latest..'
+ GIT_CLIFF_OUTPUT=git-cliff/CHANGELOG.md
+ git-cliff --config=cliff.toml latest..
 ERROR git_cliff > Git error: `revspec 'latest' not found; class=Reference (4); code=NotFound (-3)`
+ exit_code=1
++ mktemp
+ CONTEXT=/tmp/tmp.qO5KQOv1sg
+ GIT_CLIFF_OUTPUT=/tmp/tmp.qO5KQOv1sg
+ git-cliff --config=cliff.toml latest.. --context
 ERROR git_cliff > Git error: `revspec 'latest' not found; class=Reference (4); code=NotFound (-3)`
+ cat git-cliff/CHANGELOG.md
cat: git-cliff/CHANGELOG.md: No such file or directory
+ chown -R 1001:127 .
+ echo 'content<<EOF'
+ cat git-cliff/CHANGELOG.md
cat: git-cliff/CHANGELOG.md: No such file or directory
+ echo EOF
+ echo changelog=git-cliff/CHANGELOG.md
++ jq -r '.[0].version' /tmp/tmp.qO5KQOv1sg
+ echo version=
+ echo exit_code=1

[Gnyblast]

Idk if I'm mistaken or noone noticed it, you didn't set WORKDIR as /github/workspace which is the repo mount point or either to have cd "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}" || exit in your entrypoint.sh.

So what I'm seeing when running the action, is that it does not know where the repository is.

[Gnyblast]

- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0

was needed. Closed.

[Gnyblast]

Maybe consider updating the documentation because it tooks me to fork the code and add my commands to entrypoint to understand that it was just checking out the top commit with no history backwards.

Then I was this in the example you put, and it suddenly rang the bell. I think that should be explicitly mentioned.

[orhun]

fetch-depth is already a part of the examples. Do you mean explicitly adding a warning?

I'd appreciate a PR :)

[Gnyblast]

fetch-depth is already a part of the examples. Do you mean explicitly adding a warning?

I'd appreciate a PR :)

Yeah exactly because without it, almost nothing works. So it's an explicity dependency.

I will fork and create a PR no worries.

[Gnyblast]

I guess this can be closed since #25 merged in.