Failed to send data to Bearer Cloud. Unable to calculate Metadata. exit status 128

[cfabianski]

Description & Reproduction

When performing a scan with an API key we receive the following error
Failed to send data to Bearer Cloud. Unable to calculate Metadata. exit status 128

Error is happening when a repository has a local git HEAD but no origin/HEAD
This is breaking getDefaultBranch() in saas.go

[gmontard]

Can we add a nice warning message as a CLI output with indication on what to do for the user @cfabianski ?

[cfabianski]

Can we add a nice warning message as a CLI output with indication on what to do for the user @cfabianski ?

@gmontard We have a message (debug) for this but maybe debug isn't enough

bearer/pkg/report/output/saas/saas.go

Line 223 in 5073de8

log.Debug().Msg("Couldn't extract the default branch of this repository please set 'DEFAULT_BRANCH' environment variable.")

🤔

[gmontard]

Message LGTM

Though, don't you always have a default branch set with Git? And if not, is there a particular reason or a git command to use to make it so that we can advise the user to look into also? The env variable here sounds a bit hackish to me, especially if you're supposed to have a default branch setup.

[cfabianski]

origin/HEAD is always defined if you successfully cloned the repository.
You can end up with a missing origin/HEAD if you initialize a repo locally but didn't push it anywhere. That would explain it. In any cases, I will update the log level to make the message available directly without having to use --debug mode.