pub const UNDETERMINED: u8 = 6;Expand description
status could not answer the question it was asked.
A shallow or partial clone, an index that will not parse, a reference store
that will not enumerate. Nothing was found and nothing is ruled out. (A
missing .git-xcrypt was in this list until 2026-08-05 and is now CONFIG
— it is a configuration that enforces nothing, and it still puts everything
the run then skipped in undetermined.)
Added 2026-08-04, and it widens a table this project had frozen. The
reason is measured: 5 used to carry both answers, so a perfectly healthy
git clone --depth 1 — what actions/checkout produces unless it is given
fetch-depth: 0 — failed the gate with the same code as a repository
holding a plaintext secret. A gate that cries wolf on its default setup is a
gate that gets switched off, and the two answers ask different things of
whoever reads them: 5 says fix the repository, 6 says fix the checkout
and ask again. Widening the table costs nothing before the first release —
no consumer exists yet — and after it would cost a breaking change.