git broken inside all devbox projects with a 'xcrun: error: missing DEVELOPER_DIR path'

[mreishus]

What happened?

Short version

~/d/wp-calypso $ which git
/usr/bin/git
~/d/wp-calypso $ git --version
xcrun: error: missing DEVELOPER_DIR path: /nix/store/lsjl29pwp5if71jfgxlv8fifsrpax805-apple-sdk-11.3

Long version

~/dev $ which git
/usr/bin/git
~/dev $ git --version
git version 2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
~/dev $ cd wp-calypso/
direnv: loading ~/dev/wp-calypso/.envrc
direnv: using devbox
direnv: export +AR +AS +CC +CONFIG_SHELL +CXX +DEVBOX_COREPACK_ENABLED +DEVBOX_NIX_ENV_PATH_5dabf7ee44c59778d0282ed56adde6db477c34da6f71f0be48c1f5d01c0ffd74 +DEVELOPER_DIR +HOST_PATH +IN_NIX_SHELL +LD +LD_DYLD_PATH +MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET +NIX_APPLE_SDK_VERSION +NIX_BINTOOLS +NIX_BINTOOLS_WRAPPER_TARGET_HOST_aarch64_apple_darwin +NIX_BUILD_CORES +NIX_CC +NIX_CC_WRAPPER_TARGET_HOST_aarch64_apple_darwin +NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE +NIX_DONT_SET_RPATH +NIX_DONT_SET_RPATH_FOR_BUILD +NIX_ENFORCE_NO_NATIVE +NIX_HARDENING_ENABLE +NIX_IGNORE_LD_THROUGH_GCC +NIX_LDFLAGS +NIX_NO_SELF_RPATH +NIX_STORE +NM +NODE_PATH +OBJCOPY +OBJDUMP +PATH_LOCALE +RANLIB +SDKROOT +SIZE +SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH +STRINGS +STRIP +ZERO_AR_DATE +__DEVBOX_SHELLENV_HASH_5dabf7ee44c59778d0282ed56adde6db477c34da6f71f0be48c1f5d01c0ffd74 +__darwinAllowLocalNetworking +__impureHostDeps +__propagatedImpureHostDeps +__propagatedSandboxProfile +__sandboxProfile +__structuredAttrs +buildInputs +buildPhase +builder +cmakeFlags +configureFlags +depsBuildBuild +depsBuildBuildPropagated +depsBuildTarget +depsBuildTargetPropagated +depsHostHost +depsHostHostPropagated +depsTargetTarget +depsTargetTargetPropagated +doCheck +doInstallCheck +dontAddDisableDepTrack +mesonFlags +name +nativeBuildInputs +out +outputs +patches +phases +preferLocalBuild +propagatedBuildInputs +propagatedNativeBuildInputs +shell +shellHook +stdenv +strictDeps +system ~DEVBOX_CONFIG_DIR ~DEVBOX_PACKAGES_DIR ~DEVBOX_PATH_STACK ~DEVBOX_PROJECT_ROOT ~DEVBOX_WD ~PATH
~/d/wp-calypso $ which git
/usr/bin/git
~/d/wp-calypso $ git --version
xcrun: error: missing DEVELOPER_DIR path: /nix/store/lsjl29pwp5if71jfgxlv8fifsrpax805-apple-sdk-11.3

Note: I have tried running the

sudo xcode-select --reset
sudo xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

as mentioned in this comment and it does not fix.

I have also used 0.14 in this project directory successfully for a while, and it just broke today. Not sure what changed..

I might have run devbox global run -- nix store gc --extra-experimental-features nix-command since then - maybe that was it?

There is no /nix/store/lsjl29pwp5if71jfgxlv8fifsrpax805-apple-sdk-11.3 directory, but there are several references to it in the /nix/store directory:

/n/store $ rg lsjl29pwp5if71jfgxl -l
621mfk2hws9gmjpjl696vq5q2nvy9hdd-cctools-binutils-darwin-wrapper-1010.6.drv
8vm0zalbws774ak5kz19m11441mnddn1-apple-sdk-11.3.drv
0vwi86yxw6claaa4xhacs6c978fpdc6j-clang-wrapper-19.1.7.drv
5yg9nrq56y08llgxpfzb3jw1nfxcb0ak-stdenv-darwin.drv
06cmqhprnwmznmx2d9nksyjln6cbbwcl-bootstrap-stage4-clang-wrapper-19.1.7.drv
77y7i51a0y9rcak4xiqc3x3w871564p8-bootstrap-stage4-stdenv-darwin.drv
plfp1iqdvdsg33fckqgr8d10956iqmj9-stdenv-darwin.drv
cygzah1cn12n4062lw0rsad8fcfvrj9v-cctools-binutils-darwin-wrapper-1010.6.drv
yplkc3rxmdyqcgjav1l2z3jsn5xxay8i-bootstrap-stage4-stdenv-darwin.drv

Steps to reproduce

Not sure.

Command

No response

devbox.json

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jetify-com/devbox/0.13.6/.schema/devbox.schema.json",
        "packages": ["nodejs@22.9.0"],
        "env": {
                "DEVBOX_COREPACK_ENABLED": "true"
        },
    "shell": {
      "init_hook": [
        "echo 'Welcome to devbox!' > /dev/null"
      ],
      "scripts": {
        "test": [
          "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
        ]
      }
    }
  }

Devbox version

0.14.0

Nix version

nix (Nix) 2.24.7

What system does this bug occur on?

macOS (Apple Silicon)

Debug logs

No response

[mreishus]

found a workaround, export DEVBOX_USE_VERSION=0.13.7 or set -x DEVBOX_USE_VERSION 0.13.7 (fish) before cding into a devbox managed dir lets me use git, otherwise I wouldn't be able to use git in any of my projects at all..

[mreishus]

Somehow this fixed itself for me. Not sure what happened, but now I'm able to run git inside projects using devbox without having to set the DEVBOX_USE_VERSION env var.
I saw a few people thumbs up the original issue, so keeping it open.

[bebstein-pass]

AFAIK, i suppose this is because, DevBox 0.14.0 allow to "Lock and Update stdenv packages and flake references"

That have been introduced with this commit 37626bf

That includes this issue NixOS/nixpkgs#355486

[glennpratt]

Another workaround that seems to work for me devbox global add git (or devbox add git if you want to include git in your project).

[choeffer]

NixOS/nixpkgs#358795 (comment) is the culprit. Read the comments above the comment what is going on.
TLDR: Without unset DEVELOPER_DIR devbox uses these apple-sdk nix implementation/open-source wrapper thingy it seems, which does not include git (as many other tools as well). You can verify this by lookin in usr/bin for both, the nix one and the apple system included one. After unset DEVELOPER_DIR inside a devbox shell, the Apple System xcrun git is used, and everything works fine again.

[fordneild]

I am still running into this issue, any guidance from the jetify team would be greatly appreciated. I'm manually pinning users with export DEVBOX_USE_VERSION=0.13.7 for now.

[choeffer]

TLDR: set the following in the init_hook and things work fine again (for now) on the latest version 0.14.2.
(More details in my comment above #2566 (comment) and in the included links. It seems to be a nix related problem, not related to devbox.):

  "shell": {
    "init_hook": [
      "echo 'https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/355486' > /dev/null",
      "echo 'https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox/issues/2566' > /dev/null",
      "echo 'https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/358795#issuecomment-2598552176' > /dev/null",
      "unset DEVELOPER_DIR"
    ]
  }

ch@MB % devbox version
0.14.2
ch@MB % devbox shell
Info: Ensuring packages are installed.
✓ Computed the Devbox environment.
Starting a devbox shell...
(devbox) ch@MB % git version
git version 2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)