invalid config file ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml: invalid format

[hpsaturn]

Describe the bug

Today I try to create a new issue and I have this error.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. With any parameter, for example gh --version

Also I reinstalled the CLI using debian package alternartive.

Output

gh issue create
failed to read configuration:  invalid config file ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml: invalid format

the file mentioned in the error is empty. I never used or touch it.

Environment:

dpkg -l | grep GitHub
ii  gh    2.14.2  amd64        GitHub’s official command line tool.

lsb_release -a
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:	10
Codename:	buster

[troldmand]

This happened to me too, a few weeks ago. Still an issue for me and I'm currently investigating.

[eshack94]

This just happened after updating to the latest version of the gh cli tool.

eshackelford@MacBook-Pro git $ brew info gh
gh: stable 2.14.2 (bottled), HEAD
GitHub command-line tool
https://github.com/cli/cli
/usr/local/Cellar/gh/2.14.2 (138 files, 34.4MB) *
  Poured from bottle on 2022-07-16 at 18:32:07
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/gh.rb
License: MIT

[eshack94]

Additional information and how I fixed the issue on my machine:

• Inspected ~/.config/gh/config.yml file, noticed that its contents were empty.
• Deleted the file.
• gh cli working as expected.

I'm wondering if maybe the latest version of the gh cli tool auto-creates an empty config.yml file?

cc @troldmand & @hpsaturn , can you see if this also resolves your issue?

Obviously this doesn't fix root cause, but may be a workaround for folks in the meantime.

[hpsaturn]

mmm, maybe you want say: remove the ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml file. Yes, this resolve the issue. Thanks.

[MatthewDolan]

@hpsaturn, I think it makes sense to keep this issue open.

Although there is a work-around to resolve the issue when it happens (delete the file), I would guess that there is a bug in the cli which is causing this to happen. It's happened on multiple different machines independently.

[mislav]

I will reopen to investigate what could have made the file empty in the first place.

Does anyone affected by this have XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable set or remembers what version did they upgrade gh from?

[tnorthcutt]

@mislav I do not have XDG_CONFIG_HOME set (or don't think so... I ran echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and got no output).

I upgraded from 2.13.0 to 2.14.2 yesterday and ran into this error today (using gh for the first time since upgrading yesterday).

[atymic]

Also had this issue, deleting file fixed. Homebrew on mac.