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Existing assignment now has no repository template specified

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

No source file, test, or entry point is named. Start by tracing the GitHub Classroom assignment flow and reproduce the missing-template case, comparing it with an assignment that still has a template. Done means an existing assignment continues to expose its configured starting template, including the starter code and check scripts.

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Description

I released an assignment to students four weeks ago, most were able to accept the assignment and clone the repository with no issues.
Two students are starting late and as of today, I noticed that there is not longer any template repository specified. And vital starting code and check scripts are missing.
The starting template repository still exists.
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Dominant language
Go
Stars
126
Forks
21
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