Error creating fork: Not Found (HTTP 404)

[wolph]

Not exactly sure why this is going wrong but it seems I'm unable to fork through hub. I've already re-authenticated but it seems to make no difference.

My worklog:

# HUB_VERBOSE=true hub fork
> GET https://api.github.com/repos/WoLpH/vundle
> Authorization: token [REDACTED]
< HTTP 404
{"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3"}
> POST https://api.github.com/repos/gmarik/vundle/forks
> Authorization: token [REDACTED]
< HTTP 404
{"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3"}
Error creating fork: Not Found (HTTP 404)
Not Found

Anyone has a clue what might be wrong?

Some additional info:

# git branch -v
* master 272d9fe [ahead 1] added support for specifying specific branch/tag/revision while installing
# git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/gmarik/vundle (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/gmarik/vundle (push)
# git branch -v
* master 272d9fe [ahead 1] added support for specifying specific branch/tag/revision while installing
# git status -v
On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)
nothing to commit, working directory clean

Versions:

git version 2.3.5
hub version 2.2.1

On OS X installed through brew

[wolph]

Ok, I've found the problem. It appears the original repo has been renamed since.

It would be Good if the tool would give a better error. Something like: are you sure repo ... exists? with a working link

[mislav]

GitHub API is going to get repo rename redirects soon, so we'll try to switch to that. Thanks for reporting! #878