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## with Docker/Podman


By default, Docker will not copy the `.git` folder into your container.
Therefore, builds with version inference might fail.
Consequently, you can use the following snippet to infer the version from
the host OS without copying the entire `.git` folder to your `Dockerfile`.
In some situations, Docker may not copy the `.git` into the container when
building images. Because of this, builds with version inference may fail.

The following snippet exposes the external `.git` directory without copying.
This allows the version to be inferred properly form inside the container
without copying the entire `.git` folder into the container image.

```dockerfile
RUN --mount=source=.git,target=.git,type=bind \
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