Empty repo check

rundel · Aug 22, 2024 · 4737634 · 4737634
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diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: ghclass
 Title: Tools for Managing Classes on GitHub
-Version: 0.3.0
+Version: 0.3.0.9000
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Colin",
              family = "Rundel",

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # ghclass (development version)
 
+* Added check to `repo_mirror_template()` for empty repositories to avoid cryptic GitHub api error.
+
 # ghclass 0.3.0
 
 * Added support for basig GitHub Pages API endpoints - see `pages_enabled()`, `pages_status()`, `pages_create()`, and `pages_delete()`.

diff --git a/R/repo_mirror_template.R b/R/repo_mirror_template.R
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ repo_mirror_template = function(source_repo, target_repo, private = TRUE) {
   arg_is_chr(target_repo)
   arg_is_lgl_scalar(private)
 
+  if (length(repo_ls(source_repo)) == 0) {
+    cli_stop("Cannot mirror {.val {source_repo}} because the repository is empty.")
+  }
+
   target_repo = unique(target_repo)
   exists = repo_exists(target_repo)