Error creating pull request: Unprocessable Entity

[daniel]

I have problems with the pull-request command.

git pull-request -i 183
Error creating pull request: Unprocessable Entity (HTTP 422)

What does that mean? 183 is the number of an existing issue on GitHub.

[smerrill]

I get the same error when using -b, i.e.

git pull-request -b repo:branch

[smerrill]

D'oh. I had not pushed the branch I was on. Doing so fixed this.

[daniel]

That wasn't the problem I had, but it has worked for me recently. I don't know what is different now.

[mislav]

That is the exception that GitHub throws when there's something wrong about the pull-request being created, for instance if another pull-request for the same fork+branch already exists. I should handle this exception with a better error message, but I can't know what exactly went wrong.

[evilmarty]

I get the same issue and I've made sure the branch has been pushed to github. I did some digging and found the error messages thrown by github, they are:
Head sha can't be blank
Base sha can't be blank
No commits between user:branch and evilmarty:new_branch

[marr]

I know its an old issue but you mentioned adding better error messaging and now I'm still hitting an issue returning same error "Error creating fork: Unprocessable Entity (HTTP 422)". Steps to repro:

git clone [email protected]:PerlDancer/dancer-plugin-i18n.git
# make changes and commit
hub fork
# see error above.

I made sure my token was up to date but maybe the oauth scope needs more permissions, or can I not use hub fork like that?

[mislav]

@marr Please update to v1.12.0 to see if your problem persists. If it's the same, in that release you can set the HUB_VERBOSE=1 hub fork environment variable to turn on detailed debug output about HTTP traffic which should help us figure out what's going on. After you've done that, feel free to open a separate issue with your info.