failed to add remote gh repo fork --remote

Recent releases of gh have stopped working for creating forks in Github:

 draft $ gh --version
gh version 2.22.1 (2023-01-27)
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.22.1
 draft $ git clone gh://indygreg/PyOxidizer
Cloning into 'PyOxidizer'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 52248, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (2953/2953), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1135/1135), done.
remote: Total 52248 (delta 1901), reused 2649 (delta 1807), pack-reused 49295
Receiving objects: 100% (52248/52248), 12.13 MiB | 5.38 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (38619/38619), done.
 draft $ cd PyOxidizer
 PyOxidizer main $ gh repo fork --remote
✓ Created fork jaraco/PyOxidizer
failed to add remote: failed to run git: fatal: remote error: access denied or repository not exported: /a/nw/a5/dc/17/196697507/598155908.git
error: Could not fetch origin

 PyOxidizer main $ gh repo fork --remote
X No default remote repository has been set for this directory.

unable to determine base repository: please run `gh repo set-default` to select a default remote repository.

The first attempt fails with access denied or repository not exported.

This command used to work on older gh versions.

If the fork already exists, the command runs fine on a clean checkout. I suspect there's a race between creating the fork and querying it.

@samcoe

Thanks for reporting! We have determined that this happens because we sometimes try to immediately fetch git objects when adding a git remote, but the objects might not be ready yet:

cli/git/client.go

Lines 460 to 465 in 79a1be4

    
           func (c *Client) AddRemote(ctx context.Context, name, urlStr string, trackingBranches []string, mods ...CommandModifier) (*Remote, error) { 
        
           	args := []string{"remote", "add"} 
        
           	for _, branch := range trackingBranches { 
        
           		args = append(args, "-t", branch) 
        
           	} 
        
           	args = append(args, "-f", name, urlStr)

The solution would be to stop fetching implicitly on AddRemote and instead fetch only when needed. /cc @samcoe

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	func (c Client) AddRemote(ctx context.Context, name, urlStr string, trackingBranches []string, mods ...CommandModifier) (Remote, error) {
	args := []string{"remote", "add"}
	for _, branch := range trackingBranches {
	args = append(args, "-t", branch)
	}
	args = append(args, "-f", name, urlStr)

failed to add remote gh repo fork --remote #6975

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jaraco commented on Feb 6, 2023

mislav commented on Feb 6, 2023

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