Failed to create PR with aborted: you must first push the current branch to a remote, or use the --head flag

[kachick]

https://github.com/kachick/dotfiles/actions/runs/12661736199/job/35285463373

Run gh pr create --base 'main' --title 'Bump flake.lock and related dependencies' --body 'This PR has been created by reusable workflow in https://github.com/kachick/selfup/tree/main/.github/workflows
  gh pr create --base 'main' --title 'Bump flake.lock and related dependencies' --body 'This PR has been created by reusable workflow in https://github.com/kachick/selfup/tree/main/.github/workflows
  
  Do NOT work in the branch of this PR, it may be updated by the bot with force push.
  '
  shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
  env:
    PR_BRANCH: bot-update-flake-lock
    DETERMINATE_NIX_KVM: [1](https://github.com/kachick/dotfiles/actions/runs/12661736199/job/35285463373#step:16:1)
    MAGIC_NIX_CACHE_DAEMONDIR: /home/runner/work/_temp/magic-nix-cache-b9f96e52-bd04-4de5-99c2-135b67593b11
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ***
aborted: you must first push the current branch to a remote, or use the --head flag
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Looks like related to cli/cli#10188

[kachick]

Looks working now kachick/dotfiles#1031

Broken

  Version: 20250105.1.0
  Included Software: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/ubuntu24/20250105.1/images/ubuntu/Ubuntu2404-Readme.md

Fixed

  Version: 20250105.1.0
  Included Software: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/ubuntu24/20250105.1/images/ubuntu/Ubuntu2404-Readme.md

... why same 🤔

[kachick]

Also failed in other repositories

Should I pin gh version with nix even in action runner...? 🤔

[kachick]

cli/cli#6485 (comment)

[kachick]

actions/runner-images@bb3043b#diff-cc12e5c5d005932feaacf280af949d83e2cb6020dff8203d9ead2e00c30e8b7fR110

runner 20250105.1.0 is using gh 2.64.0

[kachick]

cli/cli@2358fce

We should wait for v2.65 will be used in the runner.

It just downloads latest https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/8184167b25da8b39c2abe26e415184a24464a0e7/images/ubuntu/scripts/build/install-github-cli.sh#L12-L14

So should I wait for next automated PR and merging, and applying it...? In my experience, github hosted runners takes much of the time for release iterations.

[kachick]

actions/runner-images#11377 have the updates.

[kachick]

Scheduled trigger is failing and workflow_dispatch is still working.

[kachick]

An workaround is setting --head $(git branch --show-current), however it is much redandunt with the CLI spec

-H, --head <branch>
The branch that contains commits for your pull request (default [current branch])

Pining CLI version might be better to avoid similar problems for future.

[kachick]

Worked #314

Cleanup eb4da79

[kachick]

Applying these changes required to be merged for each repository which is pinned with git tag 😩