For my project I have set up a build on the master branch, and for all pull requests. Most of the time this works, but every now and then the build fails for a specific commit with an error along the lines of: Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address 'x.x.x.x' to the list of known…

Git clone randomly fails when building pull requests from forks

halfer April 16, 2018, 1:57pm 2

This has been mentioned several times here, I think this one is the canonical copy.

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