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Can't pull student repos

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Reproduce the failure with gh classroom clone student-repos followed by gh classroom pull student-repos, using the provided debug output as a reference. Start by tracing the pull path around git fetch upstream refs/heads/master and git merge-base --is-ancestor; done means repositories update successfully, and unchanged repositories no longer report diverging changes.

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Description

Describe the bug

I cannot pull updates in students assignment using gh classroom pull student-repos -a ... command. It says:

failed to run gh: can't sync because there are diverging changes; use `--force` to overwrite the destination branch
. error: exit status 1

however, there are no diverging changes. It also does not work when there are no updates, as shown here:

$ gh classroom clone student-repos
? Select a classroom: XXXX
? Select an assignment: YYYY
Creating directory:  /ZZZZ-submissions
Cloning into: /ZZZZ-submissions/ZZZ-AAA
Cloning into: /ZZZZ-submissions/ZZZ-BBB
Cloned 2 repos.
 
$ gh classroom pull student-repos
? Select a classroom: XXXX
? Select an assignment: YYYY
Pulling repo: /ZZZZ-submissions/ZZZ-AAA
failed to run gh: can't sync because there are diverging changes; use `--force` to overwrite the destination branch
. error: exit status 1
Pulling repo: /ZZZZ-submissions/ZZZ-BBBB
failed to run gh: can't sync because there are diverging changes; use `--force` to overwrite the destination branch
. error: exit status 1
$ gh --version
gh version 2.52.0 (2024-07-15)
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.52.0
$ gh extension list
NAME          REPO                 VERSION
gh act        nektos/gh-act        v0.2.55
gh classroom  github/gh-classroom  v0.1.14
Steps to reproduce the behavior
  1. Clone students repositories using gh classroom clone ....
  2. (Optional) Modify the reference repository and request Pull Request, accept it.
  3. Try to pull repository again
Expected vs actual behaviour

I would expect all repositories to be updated. Now I need to update them manually, which works ok (no diverging changes).

Logs

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$GH_DEBUG=true gh classroom pull student-repos -a AAAAAA
* Request at 2024-07-23 13:35:52.177507471 +0200 CEST m=+0.028484741
* Request to https://api.github.com/assignments/AAAAAA
* Request took 414.42728ms
Pulling repo: XXXXXX
failed to run gh: [git remote -v]
[git config --get-regexp ^remote\..*\.gh-resolved$]
[git remote -v]
[git config --get-regexp ^remote\..*\.gh-resolved$]
* Request at 2024-07-23 13:35:52.616066256 +0200 CEST m=+0.020500993
* Request to https://api.github.com/graphql
* Request took 295.087327ms
[git -c credential.helper= -c credential.helper=!"/usr/bin/gh" auth git-credential fetch -q upstream refs/heads/master]
[git rev-parse --verify refs/heads/master]
[git merge-base --is-ancestor master FETCH_HEAD]
can't sync because there are diverging changes; use `--force` to overwrite the destination branch
. error: exit status 1

The command was executed in the same directory where gh classroom clone student-repos --all was executed before.

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