action fails, possibly due to git fetch with --depth=1

[uli-f]

My gradle build requires the full git history to be available as a version string is inferred from the git history based on tags and commits using the gradle plugin me.qoomon.git-versioning.

I check out my repo with a fetch-depth of 0, but when the update gradle wrapper action runs it executes a /usr/bin/git fetch --depth=1 which might be the problem.

Here is my github workflow:

name: Update Gradle Wrapper

on:
  schedule:
    # run every Sunday at 13:28
    - cron: "28 13 * * 0"
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  update-gradle-wrapper:
    permissions:
      # for gradle-update/update-gradle-wrapper-action
      contents: write
      # for gradle-update/update-gradle-wrapper-action
      pull-requests: write
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          # fetch the complete git history; required by update-gradle-wrapper-action
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Set up Java
        uses: actions/setup-java@v3
        with:
          distribution: 'temurin'
          java-version: '17'

      # this action doesn't work but is still useful as it only fails (and sends a notification) if a new version of gradle is actually available
      - name: Update Gradle Wrapper
        uses: gradle-update/update-gradle-wrapper-action@v1
        with:
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.PAT_UPDATE_GRADLE_WRAPPER_ACTION }}
          labels: "type: library-update"

      - name: Validate gradle wrapper
        uses: gradle/wrapper-validation-action@v1```

The workflow fails at the step Update Gradle Wrapper and this is the output that I get from that step:

Run uli-f/[email protected]
  with:
    repo-token: ***
    labels: type: library-update
    set-distribution-checksum: true
    release-channel: stable
    pr-title-template: Update Gradle Wrapper from %sourceVersion% to %targetVersion%
  env:
    JAVA_HOME: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Java_Temurin-Hotspot_jdk/17.0.8-7/x64
    JAVA_HOME_17_X64: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Java_Temurin-Hotspot_jdk/17.0.8-7/x64
/usr/bin/git config --local http.https://github.com/.extraheader Authorization: basic ***
Latest release: 8.3 (channel stable)
/usr/bin/git config --local user.name gradle-update-robot
/usr/bin/git config --local user.email [email protected]
/usr/bin/git fetch --depth=1
/usr/bin/git checkout main
Already on 'main'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
/usr/bin/git rev-parse HEAD
b428f6479b8708e19e4b3445aec8a62d30ae48f2
Creating branch
  /usr/bin/git checkout -b gradlew-update-8.3 b428f6479b8708e19e4b3445aec8a62d30ae48f2
  Switched to a new branch 'gradlew-update-8.3'
Working with Wrapper at: /home/runner/work/*****/*****/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
Updating Wrapper
  /home/runner/work/*****/*****/gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 8.3 --distribution-type bin --gradle-distribution-sha256-sum 591855b517fc635b9e04de1d05d5e76ada3f89f5fc76f87978d1b245b4f69225
  Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.2.1-bin.zip
  ............10%............20%............30%.............40%............50%............60%............70%.............80%............90%............100%
  
  Welcome to Gradle 8.2.1!
  
  Here are the highlights of this release:
   - Kotlin DSL: new reference documentation, assignment syntax by default
   - Kotlin DSL is now the default with Gradle init
   - Improved suggestions to resolve errors in console output
   - Reduced sync memory consumption
  
  For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/8.2.1/release-notes.html
  
  Starting a Gradle Daemon (subsequent builds will be faster)
  
  > Configure project :
  Gradle version: 8.2.1
  gather git situation from GitHub Actions environment variable: GITHUB_REF
  matching ref: COMMIT - b428f6479b8708e19e4b3445aec8a62d30ae48f2
  ref configuration: COMMIT - pattern: null
    version: ${describe.tag}-${describe.distance}-${commit.short}
  
  
  FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
  
  * Where:
  Build file '/home/runner/work/******/******/build.gradle' line: 35
  
  * What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating root project '*****'.
  > java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: couldn't find matching tag in shallow git repository
  
  * Try:
  > Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
  > Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
  > Run with --scan to get full insights.
  > Get more help at https://help.gradle.org./
  
  BUILD FAILED in 38s
  Error: ❌ FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
  
  * Where:
  Build file '/home/runner/work/*****/*****/build.gradle' line: 35
  
  * What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating root project '*****'.
  > java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: couldn't find matching tag in shallow git repository
  
  * Try:
  > Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
  > Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
  > Run with --scan to get full insights.
  > Get more help at https://help.gradle.org./
  
  BUILD FAILED in 38s