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Failed to execute git
thrown when attempting to view PR Description in "GitHub" tab
#5744
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It seems that this only occurs when I'm not fully signed in- I was prompted in the pull request screen to "Sign In for Additional Permissions", which seemed to resolve the issue (I had to click the arrow to check out the PR and click on the PR name to view the details) I wasn't prompted to sign in through the account icon or when attempting to access the PR description from the GitHub tab though. |
What helped me was executing |
Next time someone sees this, can you please share the output from the Output view for "git"? |
@alexr00 I can confirm that these are the same outputs form "Git" and "Github Pull Requests" after clicking on PR description. @makeitraina thanks for posting |
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(real branch name is changed to VSCode is configured not to sync repository automatically. Could this be an issue?
When I do If your PR did not make it to newest extension version just ignore my post Thanks |
Just putting this out there in case someone ends up in a similar situation, and it could be helpful: I had the same issue, but running plain However, in my |
To verify:
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Fix is available in version 0.82.1. |
Failed to execute git
is thrown when clicking on the "Description" button under pull requests.There doesn't appear to be any errors thrown in the extension's output, but it occurs when clicking on the "Description" button under the pull request. Opening the pull request under the "GitHub Pull Request" tab instead of the "GitHub" tab does fetch the information correctly.
I found #5668 and #5743 to be somewhat similar to this issue, however that error seems to occur in "write" operations, whereas this fails to fetch information from GitHub.
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