Running 'git' in AWS lambda

Question

I am trying to run git in AWS lambda to make a checkout of a repository.

This is my setup:

• I am using nodejs 4.3
• I am not using nodegit because I

Answer 1

The issue is that you cannot copy just the git binary. You need a portable version of git and even with that you're going to have a bad time because you cannot guarantee that the os the lambda function runs on is going to be compatible with the binary.

Stepping back, I would just walk away from this approach completely. I would clone and build a package that I would just download pretty much the same way you do downloadDeploymentKeyFromS3Sync.