From bc19966801cc1902fa7f5387ed52a31d8e82f226 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: j4n <j4n@systemli.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:57:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docker: run a dummy git init to make cmdeploy tooling happy

---
 docker/chatmail_relay.dockerfile | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docker/chatmail_relay.dockerfile b/docker/chatmail_relay.dockerfile
index 73a3c09a..bdbcf65c 100644
--- a/docker/chatmail_relay.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/chatmail_relay.dockerfile
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ WORKDIR /opt/chatmail
 
 RUN printf '[params]\nmail_domain = build.local\n' > /tmp/chatmail.ini
 
-RUN python3 -m venv /opt/cmdeploy && \
+# Dummy git repo init: .git/ is excluded from the build context (.dockerignore)
+# but setuptools calls `git ls-files` when building the sdist.
+RUN git init && \
+    python3 -m venv /opt/cmdeploy && \
     /opt/cmdeploy/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir \
         -e chatmaild/ -e cmdeploy/