From 7f7f439f34c4598e9a00cfce2ff8e0c7d55de73e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Copilot <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:04:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ios-ci: fix stale git lock file crash on self-hosted runner
 (#4120)

Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: louwers <649392+louwers@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .github/workflows/ios-ci.yml | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ios-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ios-ci.yml
index 4f4002a20..3db7fc6a4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ios-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ios-ci.yml
@@ -59,9 +59,17 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
         with:
-          submodules: recursive
+          submodules: false
           persist-credentials: false
 
+      - name: Remove stale git lock files
+        run: find .git -type f -name "*.lock" -delete 2>/dev/null || true
+        working-directory: .
+
+      - name: Update submodules
+        run: git submodule update --init --recursive
+        working-directory: .
+
       - name: Cache Bazel
         uses: actions/cache@8b402f58fbc84540c8b491a91e594a4576fec3d7 # v5.0.2
         with: