REST API POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/git/refs will respond 404 when submit a specific sha

[zjffun]

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I try to create a branch with the command below, and find it returns 404. After trying, I found that there is a problem with sha af62d2b26e16060b53ff17b91a50e8c6cbef3c27, but I don't know causes of the problem and how to prevent it. Because this sha exists https://github.com/zjffun/translated-content-dochub/tree/af62d2b26e16060b53ff17b91a50e8c6cbef3c27 .

curl 'https://api.github.com/repos/zjffun/translated-content-dochub/git/refs' \
  -H 'authority: api.github.com' \
  -H 'accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
  -H 'accept-language: en,zh-CN;q=0.9,zh;q=0.8,or;q=0.7,fa;q=0.6' \
  -H 'authorization: token gho_xxx' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8' \
  -H 'origin: https://dochub.zjffun.com' \
  -H 'referer: https://dochub.zjffun.com/' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="116", "Not)A;Brand";v="24", "Google Chrome";v="116"' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua-platform: "macOS"' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-site: cross-site' \
  -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' \
  --data-raw '{"sha":"af62d2b26e16060b53ff17b91a50e8c6cbef3c27","ref":"refs/heads/dochub/translate-1696175536874"}' \
  --compressed

Respond message:

{
  "message": "Not Found",
  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/git/refs#create-a-reference"
}

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This request will succeed, the only difference is sha.

curl 'https://api.github.com/repos/zjffun/translated-content-dochub/git/refs' \
  -H 'authority: api.github.com' \
  -H 'accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
  -H 'accept-language: en,zh-CN;q=0.9,zh;q=0.8,or;q=0.7,fa;q=0.6' \
  -H 'authorization: token gho_xxx' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8' \
  -H 'origin: https://dochub.zjffun.com' \
  -H 'referer: https://dochub.zjffun.com/' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="116", "Not)A;Brand";v="24", "Google Chrome";v="116"' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua-platform: "macOS"' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-site: cross-site' \
  -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' \
  --data-raw '{"sha":"1db4e11b91184ab74e9a084b921e2b3806ad0af9","ref":"refs/heads/dochub/translate-1696175536874"}' \
  --compressed

Respond message:

{
  "ref": "refs/heads/dochub/translate-1696175536874",
  "node_id": "REF_kwDOKanFL9oAKXJlZnMvaGVhZHMvZG9jaHViL3RyYW5zbGF0ZS0xNjk2MTc1NTM2ODc0",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/zjffun/translated-content-dochub/git/refs/heads/dochub/translate-1696175536874",
  "object": {
    "sha": "1db4e11b91184ab74e9a084b921e2b3806ad0af9",
    "type": "commit",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/zjffun/translated-content-dochub/git/commits/1db4e11b91184ab74e9a084b921e2b3806ad0af9"
  }
}

Thank you.

[ikodev]

I encounter the same problem today on the POST git/refs endpoint.

[JoffreyPlouvier]

Same problem here

I found that it only works with the HEAD commit of the branch, but not with any other

[zjffun]

Someone else should have duplicated the problem. This should be considered a bug. Does anyone have permission to change the label from Question to bug?

[nick-code-lab]

same problem, any further discussion？

[salyh]

same problem here

[IndraGunawan]

still facing this issue