Cant create refs/heads/feature/branch

[samdnz]

Please avoid duplicates

• I checked all open bugs and none of them matched my problem.

Reproducible test case

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/JYWwDg9gTgLgBAbzgcwKYwPIGMYQNbDwC+cAZlBCHAEQACAhjsBAHYDOA9MoQBYCuAI2oAoUnxZNWcYGwDKMKMBbIAFAHce9GAC44bBUuQBKREWHnhWVvsRwAJlvpwSAXjj019QnAg58hADooVABHPlR9FWoAcQBRABU4DmojCyt2eAcYJzcPL3g0TD8CGCiUoIiYAO4qrGCtVAAlVFIVBGE4Tq7O4NJdal7OHlR6O05SEZg+YI4QAE8AWgmtadRqABoO7q62TX6AN3oAG2A7PU0Rba7gyH76FjmNrauINRZUKH6cAA8KyADXu8oJdtkQjABucwcDhwVDfMCoHDuOC9OC4OACVBwOqTVB2CzQ9w4PjHOCxKAUT5wZoTYISLF8MBZLGkLxHPFwI4QZBoM5qXhwFgQOAgaBYpSkCDCIA

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Version

"@actions/github": "^5.0.3"

What happened?

When using the octokit via the actions package to create branches only names with 2 slashes are accepted.

refs/heads/feature will work

but refs/heads/feature/my-feature will not

Would you be interested in contributing a fix?

• yes

[oscard0m]

Hi @samdnz,

Thanks for taking the time and effort on reporting the issue. Is very valuable that you share a TypeScript Playground.

I have some questions for you to try to get closer to the root cause of the issue:

• Would it be possible to get the output error you are getting?

I'm guessing you are getting some kind of error when trying to run your command.

Thanks

[samdnz]

creating refs/heads/acceptance/deploy-action-yaml from e0ff8a72cb53368408223a0426d6356aa327cc4c, pipeline-actions samdnz
Error: Reference update failed

with ref "refs/heads/acceptance-deploy-action-yaml" this would work

[timrogers]

@samdnz I've just tried this locally using the same code as you and I am able to create a branch with a name with a slash in it (e.g. timrogers/foo).

Could you check your package-lock.json and share the versions of all of the Octokit packages you're using?

Could you also share a working code sample for a branch you are able to create?

[samdnz]

https://github.com/samdnz/test-branch-create/runs/8157402605?check_suite_focus=true

everything is in this repo. the octokit dependency is transitive from the actions package

[timrogers]

This is rather strange! Would you be able to try using Octokit directly instead? I'm wondering if there is a fix in more recent Octokit versions.

[samdnz]

Yes this is rather strange. I have spent the better part of the week convincing myself that this was actually the cause of my issue.