Description of the problem / feature request:

The presence of a .bazelversion file that defines any non-matching version at the root of a directory structure prevents bazel from intepreting any commands in any subdirectory, including bazel version, help, info.

However, these are the commands needed to debug why .bazelversion is not satisfied, or to query non-build-related hel

This might be faster:
git clone /path/to/base/head/startup-os

We could also probably do:
git clone file:///path/to/base/head/startup-os --depth=1

With #7482, the test "fall back to limit-based query with consistent results" fails occasionally here:

https://github.com/digital-asset/daml/blob/60449fe24da93bfbf87c83c769dba13a447e2e31/ledger/participant-integration-api/src/test/lib/scala/platform/store/dao/JdbcLedgerDaoTransactionsSpec.scala#L531-L534

With a message like so

  Vector("0100000c21", ...) did not equal Vector(...)
  

See if we can replace sanitize_string_for_usage with code from skylib (existing or to contribute back).
Motivation for generalization- Recurring pattern of sanitizing inputs

Would the maintainers consider making @io_bazel_rules_k8s//toolchains/kubectl:toolchain_type

visibility = ["//visibility:public"],

I'd like to create my toolchain targets in my own Bazel packages that depend on `@io_bazel_rules_k8s//toolchains/kubectl:toolchain_ty