GitLab CI Warning: "git": executable file not found in $PATH

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WARNING: current commit information was not captured by the build: git was not found in the system: exec: "git": executable file not found in $PATH

I saw this WARNING sail by while I was watching a Docker build process run on my GitLab CI pipeline. The build wasn’t failing but wasn’t completing cleanly. The GitLab runner image being used for this pipeline was:

image: python:3.9-slim

The solve came after a bit of experimentation and found that I needed to edit my .gitlab-ci.yml file to include the following:

before_script:
  - apk add --update --no-cache git

That edit solved the Warning and cleaned up the pipeline. Noted.

GoLand: File is not `goimports`-ed (goimports)

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Had a bit of a head scratcher when I was linting my Go code with golangci-lint. I was getting the following error:

File is not `goimports`-ed (goimports)

After checking for formatting errors (tabs v spaces) and running fmt I found this setting in GoLand which solved the issue (it reorganizes your import section).

All you need to do is set the Sorting type to goimports and you’ll be golden.

How To Change The Created And Modified Date Of Copied Or Downloaded Image Files

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Invariably when returning home from vacation I have a bunch of images and videos (iPhone and GoPro) that I want to add to my online library. I’m a stickler for correct meta data so seeing the dates / timestamps get clobbered to the current date / timestamp when copying or transferring was a point of frustration. Many of the tools I use to organize and edit these files use the Created date to sort or to build timelines so correcting each file manually was time consuming and laborious.

Enter the wonderful ExifTool by Phil Harvey. ExifTool gave me a simple and fast process to correct all of clobbered dates and timestamps straight from the CLI.

Since I’m using Mac I install the ExifTool via Homebrew:

➜  ~ brew install exiftool

Then, I create a unique directory to contain all the image & video files I want to update and subsequently copy / unzip / download them there. CD into that directory and run the following command:

➜  iCloud Photos exiftool '-FileCreateDate<CreateDate' '-FileModifyDate<ModifyDate' . -api QuickTimeUTC
    1 directories scanned
   10 image files updated
    1 image files unchanged

If you want to run the command on a directory you are not currently inside of just add the path to the files you want to update vs the current directory dot ‘.’ I show in the example.