How to fix fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list. Shallow clone may not have all commits in Git

# Fetch all remaining history
git fetch --unshallow

# Verify the repository is no longer shallow
git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository
# Should output: false

# Fetch more history incrementally
git fetch --depth=100
git fetch --depth=1000
git fetch --unshallow

- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0  # Full history
    # Or use a specific depth:
    # fetch-depth: 100

variables:
  GIT_DEPTH: 0  # Full clone
  # Or specific depth:
  # GIT_DEPTH: 100

# Or per-job:
job_name:
  variables:
    GIT_DEPTH: 0

checkout([
  $class: 'GitSCM',
  extensions: [[$class: 'CloneOption', depth: 0, shallow: false]]
])

- checkout:
    # CircleCI doesn't shallow clone by default
    # But if using custom clone:
- run:
    command: git clone --depth=0 $CIRCLE_REPOSITORY_URL .

# Fetch the target branch for merging
git fetch origin main:refs/remotes/origin/main

# Fetch with enough depth for merge base
git fetch --deepen=50 origin main

# Fetch all tags (often needed for version detection)
git fetch --tags

# Fetch specific commit if known
git fetch origin <commit-sha>

# Fetch PR branch and target branch
git fetch origin pull/$PR_NUMBER/head:pr-branch
git fetch origin $TARGET_BRANCH:$TARGET_BRANCH --depth=100

# Check if shallow file exists and its contents
cat .git/shallow

# If corrupted or inconsistent, remove and re-fetch
rm .git/shallow
git fetch --unshallow

# Or recreate the repository
cd ..
rm -rf repo-name
git clone https://github.com/user/repo-name.git

# Backup local changes
git stash

# Repair shallow information
git fetch origin --unshallow

# Restore changes
git stash pop

# Reset to match remote state
git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/main

# If that fails, start fresh
git fetch --refetch --unshallow

# Or clone again
cd ..
rm -rf repo-name
git clone https://github.com/user/repo-name.git

# GitHub Actions - always clean
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    clean: true
    fetch-depth: 0

# Use protocol version 2 (recommended)
git config --global protocol.version 2

# Or fall back to version 1 if v2 causes issues
git config --global protocol.version 1

# Then retry the operation
git fetch --unshallow

- run: git config --global protocol.version 2
- uses: actions/checkout@v4

# Treeless clone - omits tree and blob objects
git clone --filter=tree:0 https://github.com/user/repo.git

# Blobless clone - omits blob objects
git clone --filter=blob:none https://github.com/user/repo.git

# GitHub Actions with partial clone
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    filter: tree:0

# Fetch all tags
git fetch --tags --force

# If shallow, deepen to include tagged commits
git fetch --shallow-since="2023-01-01"
# Or deepen by count
git fetch --deepen=100

# Verify git describe works
git describe --tags --always

# GitHub Actions
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0
    fetch-tags: true

# GitLab CI
variables:
  GIT_DEPTH: 0
  GIT_STRATEGY: fetch
before_script:
  - git fetch --tags

# Fetch annotated tags reachable from HEAD
git fetch --tags --shallow-exclude=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo HEAD~100)

# Clone single branch with reasonable depth
git clone --depth=100 --single-branch --branch main https://github.com/user/repo.git

# For PRs, fetch only what's needed
git fetch --depth=100 origin main
git fetch --depth=100 origin pull/$PR_NUMBER/head:pr-branch

git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/user/repo.git
cd repo
git sparse-checkout set path/to/needed/dir

# GitLab CI
variables:
  GIT_CLONE_TIMEOUT: 600  # seconds