Recover from “Issue fork creation failed!” due to “Failed to create wiki”

Created on 11 January 2021, over 4 years ago

Updated 15 April 2025, 10 days ago

We have been getting up to one Failed to create wiki exception per day in issue fork creation. Internally in GitLab, this seems to be a timeout. This leaves a GitLab project for the fork, with an empty repository instead of starting the forking process. This leftover project then blocks all future forking of that issue until is is cleaned up.

When this exception is caught we should:

Delete the partial fork project
Rename it to not collide, deletion happens after a week and the namespace/etc is still used in the meantime
Change the path to not collide

📌 Task

Status

Fixed

Version

3.0

Component

GitLab integration

Created by

🇺🇸United States drumm NY, US

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🇧🇪Belgium aspilicious
aspilicious → changed the visibility of the branch 3192158-recover-failed-wiki to hidden.
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🇧🇪Belgium aspilicious
aspilicious → changed the visibility of the branch 3192158-recover-failed-wiki to active.

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