Fail if attempting to execute git commands in a directory that is not…

… a git-repo. (#326)

* Fail (and log message) if attempting to execute git commands in a directory that is not a git-repo.

* Add Test

* Code Formatting

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Co-authored-by: Constantin Comendant <constantin@uberagent.com>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Zweifel <stefan@stefanzweifel.dev>

entrypoint.sh

@@ -82,8 +82,15 @@ _git_is_dirty() {
     echo "INPUT_FILE_PATTERN: ${INPUT_FILE_PATTERN}";
     read -r -a INPUT_FILE_PATTERN_EXPANDED <<< "$INPUT_FILE_PATTERN";
 
+    # capture stderr
+    gitStatusMessage="$((git status -s $INPUT_STATUS_OPTIONS -- ${INPUT_FILE_PATTERN_EXPANDED:+${INPUT_FILE_PATTERN_EXPANDED[@]}} >/dev/null ) 2>&1)";
     # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-    [ -n "$(git status -s $INPUT_STATUS_OPTIONS -- ${INPUT_FILE_PATTERN_EXPANDED:+${INPUT_FILE_PATTERN_EXPANDED[@]}})" ]
+    gitStatus="$(git status -s $INPUT_STATUS_OPTIONS -- ${INPUT_FILE_PATTERN_EXPANDED:+${INPUT_FILE_PATTERN_EXPANDED[@]}})";
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        _log "error" "git-status failed with:<$gitStatusMessage>";
+        exit 1;
+    fi
+    [ -n "$gitStatus" ]
 }
 
 _switch_to_branch() {

tests/git-auto-commit.bats

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ setup() {
     export FAKE_LOCAL_REPOSITORY="${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/tests_local_repository"
     export FAKE_REMOTE="${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/tests_remote_repository"
     export FAKE_TEMP_LOCAL_REPOSITORY="${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/tests_clone_of_remote_repository"
+    export FAKE_FOLDER_WITHOUT_GIT_REPO="/tmp/tests_folder_without_git_repo"
 
     # While it is likely the GitHub hosted runners will use master as the default branch,
     # locally anyone may change that. So for tests lets grab whatever is currently set
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ teardown() {
     rm -rf "${FAKE_LOCAL_REPOSITORY}"
     rm -rf "${FAKE_REMOTE}"
     rm -rf "${FAKE_TEMP_LOCAL_REPOSITORY}"
+    rm -rf "${INPUT_REPOSITORY}"
 
     if [ -z ${GITHUB_OUTPUT+x} ]; then
         echo "GITHUB_OUTPUT is not set"
@@ -1112,3 +1114,14 @@ END
     run git log -n 1
     assert_output --partial $COMMIT_MESSAGE
 }
+
+@test "It exits with error message if entrypoint.sh is being run not in a git repository" {
+    INPUT_REPOSITORY="${FAKE_FOLDER_WITHOUT_GIT_REPO}"
+
+    mkdir "${INPUT_REPOSITORY}"
+
+    run git_auto_commit
+
+    assert_failure;
+    assert_line "::error::git-status failed with:<fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git>"
+}