GoReleaser no remote configure to life refs from

[richmailYT]

GoReleaser check spits out

   • loading config file       file=.goreleaser.yml
   • checking config: 
      • snapshotting     
      • scm releases     
   ⨯ config is invalid error=no remote configured to list refs from
   ⨯ command failed            error=invalid config: no remote configured to list refs from

this is my .goreleaser.yml file

before:
  hooks:
    - go mod tidy
    - go generate ./...
builds:
  - env:
      - CGO_ENABLED=0
    goos:
      - linux
      - windows
      - darwin
archives:
  - replacements:
      darwin: Darwin
      linux: Linux
      windows: Windows
      386: i386
      amd64: x86_64
checksum:
  name_template: 'checksums.txt'
snapshot:
  name_template: "{{ incpatch .Version }}-next"
changelog:
  sort: asc
  filters:
    exclude:
      - '^docs:'
      - '^test:'

project_name: Golang-AutoClicker

[caarlos0]

you don't have a git remote URL set.

git remote -v is probably empty.

You'll need to properly setup your local repository.

[rfay]

This fails like this also if the current branch doesn't exist on your remote. So you can push the branch. The .git suffix does not seem to be required, and it's not necessary to have a remote named origin; the error comes from git ls-remote --get-url, so it doesn't do any good to look in goreleaser config for this, it's all about git. So work with git ls-remote --get-url until it returns a result like [email protected]:rfay/ddev and then things should work.

[stephane-archer]

why goreleaser need access to git remote?

[caarlos0]

it uses it to get default values if things are not explicit in the configuration.

[stephane-archer]

It's a strange experience when you just use it to build and it look at your remote information. For release I understand it's necessary but if you just "git init; git add main.go; git commit -m "hello word"", you have to add a remote to build with gorelease ?
What config value should be added? Especially if you don't have a remote yet (or will not have one)

[caarlos0]

I think you will have to run it as goreleaser build --clean --snapshot to bypass these checks