Checkout fails on git-tags, when .git directory is already present

[floscher]

This seems to describe the same issue:

Builds using git tags failing (x-post)

(x-post from 2.0 Support - not sure which category is more appropriate) I’ve been using git tags previously to build on CircleCI 2.0. Since about 2 weeks ago(?), it looks like a change to the checkout step is breaking builds. Previously, the last part of the script looked like this: if [ -n "$CIRCLE_BRANCH" ] then git reset --hard $CIRCLE_SHA1 git checkout -q -B $CIRCLE_BRANCH fi git reset --hard $CIRCLE_SHA1 The new code breaks tags: if [ -n "$CIRCLE_TAG" ] then git reset --hard "$C…

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