Local Checkout Fails due to xargs file limit

[stephenprater]

This has been mentioned a couple of times in the past:

Local Checkout fails using CLI

I have the same problem as described here: Local Checkout fails using CLI, tar terminates with signal 13 I’m running circleci local execute with a volume pointing to a current directory, which is a git repo (contains .git directory) version: $ circleci version 0.1.7645+5b80b52 (homebrew) command: $ circleci local execute -v $(pwd):/root/repo --job build logs: $ circleci local execute -v $(pwd):/root/repo --job build Docker image digest: sha256:de517d0d10219dd242a58b698fff69c92…

Local Checkout fails using CLI, tar terminates with signal 13

I can indeed (for now) locate the issue to the following command: git ls-files -z | xargs -0 tar -c | tar -t -C ~/tmp-circleci Signal 13 means the second tar is still reading and the first would be finished writing. (cf https://stackoverflow.com/a/27903078/2367848, which I guess you read as well) Edit: this seems to work with a test repository with only 1 file (committed). The copy happens w/o error. Maybe a problematic file?

In both cases, the answer appears to have been to remove xargs from the checkout pipeline and use tar -T instead - but that seems to have been accomplished via patch to the CLI. I have the latest version (0.1.14915+4e9d967 (release)) so the updated versions in the previous answers aren’t working for me.

Is it possible for me to use the standard checkout step on this (huge, lots of files) repo and have it work locally?