addons Git pull constantly clears directory including `.storage` folder

Describe the issue you are experiencing

I setup my HASS from a backup (to migrate from Core in a Virtualenv to OS) and configured this addon to pull my configs from Git. In the past I used a custom script to do this but I wanted to replace it with the "native" functionality.

However, as soon as something changes in the /config folder it gets cleared out completely and replaced with the stuff I have in my repo. This results in it also removing the .storage folder and all addons I installed using HACS (custom_components).

The latter is even included in the .gitignore

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Which operating system are you running on?

Home Assistant Operating System

Which add-on are you reporting an issue with?

Git pull

What is the version of the add-on?

7.14.0

Steps to reproduce the issue

Setup HASS
Setup this addon
Add a file to /config
See everything gets replaced

System Health information

System Information

version	core-2024.4.1
installation_type	Home Assistant OS
dev	false
hassio	true
docker	true
user	root
virtualenv	false
python_version	3.12.2
os_name	Linux
os_version	6.6.20-haos
arch	x86_64
timezone	Europe/Amsterdam
config_dir	/config

Home Assistant Community Store

GitHub API	ok
GitHub Content	ok
GitHub Web	ok
GitHub API Calls Remaining	4971
Installed Version	1.34.0
Stage	running
Available Repositories	1415
Downloaded Repositories	99
HACS Data	ok

Home Assistant Cloud

logged_in	false
can_reach_cert_server	ok
can_reach_cloud_auth	ok
can_reach_cloud	ok

Home Assistant Supervisor

host_os	Home Assistant OS 12.1
update_channel	stable
supervisor_version	supervisor-2024.03.1
agent_version	1.6.0
docker_version	24.0.7
disk_total	30.8 GB
disk_used	12.7 GB
healthy	true
supported	true
board	ova
supervisor_api	ok
version_api	ok
installed_addons	Terminal & SSH (9.10.0), MariaDB (2.6.1), Git pull (7.14.0), File editor (5.8.0), phpMyAdmin (0.9.1), Log Viewer (0.17.0), eufy-security-ws (1.8.0-2), ESPHome (2024.3.1)

Dashboards

error	failed to load: unknown

Recorder

oldest_recorder_run	April 2, 2024 at 07:41
current_recorder_run	April 5, 2024 at 17:06
estimated_db_size	1529.25 MiB
database_engine	mysql
database_version	10.6.12

Spotify

api_endpoint_reachable	ok

Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us?

2024-04-05 17:47:10.291 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.addon] Starting Docker add-on homeassistant/amd64-addon-git_pull with version 7.14.0
2024-04-05 17:48:37.570 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Watchdog found addon Git pull is stopped, restarting...
2024-04-05 17:48:37.584 INFO (SyncWorker_7) [supervisor.docker.manager] Cleaning addon_core_git_pull application
2024-04-05 17:48:38.609 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.addon] Starting Docker add-on homeassistant/amd64-addon-git_pull with version 7.14.0
2024-04-05 17:50:06.423 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Watchdog found addon Git pull is stopped, restarting...
2024-04-05 17:50:06.432 INFO (SyncWorker_4) [supervisor.docker.manager] Cleaning addon_core_git_pull application
2024-04-05 17:50:08.140 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.addon] Starting Docker add-on homeassistant/amd64-addon-git_pull with version 7.14.0
2024-04-05 17:50:38.896 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Watchdog found addon Git pull is failed, restarting...
2024-04-05 17:50:38.901 INFO (SyncWorker_5) [supervisor.docker.manager] Cleaning addon_core_git_pull application
2024-04-05 17:50:39.965 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.addon] Starting Docker add-on homeassistant/amd64-addon-git_pull with version 7.14.0
2024-04-05 17:51:21.120 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'host' for MariaDB (core_mariadb)
2024-04-05 17:51:24.553 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Watchdog found addon Git pull is stopped, restarting...
2024-04-05 17:51:24.559 INFO (SyncWorker_0) [supervisor.docker.manager] Cleaning addon_core_git_pull application
2024-04-05 17:51:25.519 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.addon] Starting Docker add-on homeassistant/amd64-addon-git_pull with version 7.14.0
2024-04-05 17:53:14.013 ERROR (SyncWorker_3) [supervisor.docker.manager] Container addon_core_git_pull is not running
2024-04-05 17:53:14.016 ERROR (SyncWorker_1) [supervisor.docker.manager] Container addon_core_git_pull is not running
2024-04-05 17:53:14.024 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Watchdog found addon Git pull is stopped, restarting...
2024-04-05 17:53:14.030 INFO (SyncWorker_6) [supervisor.docker.manager] Cleaning addon_core_git_pull application
2024-04-05 17:53:15.337 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.addon] Starting Docker add-on homeassistant/amd64-addon-git_pull with version 7.14.0
2024-04-05 17:54:40.564 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.addon] Watchdog found addon Git pull is stopped, restarting...
2024-04-05 17:54:40.569 INFO (SyncWorker_7) [supervisor.docker.manager] Cleaning addon_core_git_pull application
2024-04-05 17:54:41.703 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.addon] Starting Docker add-on homeassistant/amd64-addon-git_pull with version 7.14.0

Anything in the add-on logs that might be useful for us?

s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started
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s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
[Info] setting up credential.helper for user: hass
[Info] Saving git credentials to /tmp/git-credentials
fatal: refusing to work with credential missing host field
[Warn] Git repository doesn't exist
[Info] Backup configuration to /tmp/config-2024-04-05_15-54-42
[Info] Start git clone
Cloning into '/config'...
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s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: stopping
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: stopping
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully stopped

Additional information

Addon configuration:

repository: XXXXXXXXX
git_branch: master
git_remote: origin
auto_restart: false
restart_ignore:
  - ui-lovelace.yaml
  - .gitignore
git_command: pull
git_prune: false
deployment_key: []
deployment_user: XXXXXXX
deployment_password: XXXXXX
deployment_key_protocol: rsa
repeat:
  active: false
  interval: 300

Apr 05 '24 16:04 syphernl

You need a .gitignore file that excludes everything but your config files

Apr 12 '24 13:04 covertbert

You need a .gitignore file that excludes everything but your config files

That is already the case. It seems that the process of copying back after emptying the folder isn't working. I noticed that the watchdog also kept restarting this process

Apr 12 '24 13:04 syphernl

Not sure if this is related, but I noticed that after upgrading to 7.14.0, this addon corrupts/deletes my HA config and I could not figure out why. For me, staying on version 7.13.1 of this addon prevents that from happening. I have not tried 7.14.1 yet.