release-please: Unhelpful "not found" message when running on private repo

Environment details

  • OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 (GitHub Workflow)
  • Node.js version: n/a
  • npm version: n/a
  • release-please version: v1.3.0

Steps to reproduce

  1. Use the sample release-please.yml workflow from the README in a private Node.js repository that has had zero releases so far.
  2. Push a commit to the repository.
  3. Get this output:
Run GoogleCloudPlatform/release-please-action@v1.3.0
✖ no recent release PRs found
✔ found 6 commits since undefined
✖ branch release-v1.0.0 already exists
✖ CHANGELOG.md not found
✔ creating CHANGELOG.md
✔ updating package.json from 0.0.0 to 1.0.0
✔ updating package-lock.json from 0.0.0 to 1.0.0
✖ file samples/package.json did not exist
Error: release-please failed: Not Found

What does that last “Not Found” mean?

About this issue

  • Original URL
  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions: 1
  • Comments: 16 (14 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@abeMedia perhaps a better idea, would you be able to invite me to a fake private repository that’s exhibiting the issue?

Looks like it was our company issue

this is possible still issue with latest version google-github-actions/release-please-action/issues/262 on my private repo I didn’t see this issue, but within the organisation repo I have the same with the latest version