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repository does not exist

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, graphql
Domain
api, cli

Research direction

Start at the src search --json entry point and trace handling of GraphQL errors at search.results.results[].file.content. Use the provided query as a starting point, though reproduction requires the reporter's corporate data. Done means a missing repository does not fail the entire search and the remaining results are still handled consistently.

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Description

When I perform a search like

src search --json "repo:has.file(package.json) file:package.json "some-package" count:1000"

The whole search fails for a repo that "does not exist"

GraphQL errors: {
"message": "repository does not exist: repo-name",
"path": [
"search",
"results",
"results",
309,
"file",
"content"
]

The query works with a small count before it hits an error. Is there a way for the cli to skip GraphQL errors? The query works fine within the sourcegraph webapp.

I cannot give a case to reproduce because this depends on our corporate data

Dominant language
Go
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Forks
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Merged PRs (30d)
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