Make calls to Git optional

[alexsharoff]

Description

We run swift-package-manager on CI and lately we've noticed that Git's index.lock is left after a build is cancelled. That is a problem, because the lock file prevents post-build repository cleanup from working, i.e. git calls return an error.

Git is called in somewhere here

swift-package-manager/Sources/PackageLoading/ManifestLoader.swift

Lines 859 to 862 in c5d77e5

	gitInformation = ContextModel.GitInformation(
	currentTag: repo.getCurrentTag(),
	currentCommit: try repo.getCurrentRevision().identifier,
	hasUncommittedChanges: repo.hasUncommittedChanges()

Is it possible to disable calling Git in swift-package-manager? For example, via an environment variable.

Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

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Steps to reproduce

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Swift Package Manager version/commit hash

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Swift & OS version (output of swift --version && uname -a)

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[plemarquand]

Git is used quire a few places throughout SwiftPM, most prominently during package resolution. Disabling Git would break package resolution, so isn't really an option.

Cancelling a build gracefully (SIGINT or SIGTERM) should also shut down child git processes gracefully, cleaning the lock file. If a build is cancelled with SIGKILL then this may not happen, so isn't recommended.