Re: Bug: All git operations fail when .git contains a non-existent gitdir

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 9:23 AM Atharva Raykar [off-list ref] wrote:

I am not too familiar with this area, and I don't know how feasible it is to
delay setting up the environment until after looking at the 'ls-remote'
arguments. At a cursory glance, it looks difficult to do without large
structural changes to the code.

Understood.  This happened to bite us particularly hard, because the
context where we found it is during a `go mod download` and `go`
swallows the error, attempts something else and then reports that the
something else failed with no indication what the underlying error is.
It took us a while to track down what was going on (see
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/47311).