The pre-commit run suddenly fails without changes being made to the pre-commit configuration file. The log shows the following error message when attempting to initialise the environment for Flake8:
...
[INFO] Initializing environment for https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8.git.
An unexpected error has occurred: CalledProcessError: command: ('/usr/bin/git', 'fetch', 'origin', '--tags')
return code: 128
expected return code: 0
stdout: (none)
stderr:
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://gitlab.com': No such device or address
...
The pre-commit configuration file includes the following entry:
---
repos:
- repo: https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8.git
rev: 3.9.2
hooks:
- id: flake8
exclude: 'tests|env|docs'
The Flake8 project has moved to GitHub and requires updating the repository URL in the pre-commit configuration file:
---
repos:
- repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8.git
rev: 3.9.2
hooks:
- id: flake8
exclude: 'tests|env|docs'