Anyone have this Tower issue when creating GitHub Repo?

Question

Is anyone seeing this issue with Tower? When I try to Create GitHub Repository, if I enter anything in the "description" field, I get the following GitHub API Parse Error: "A response from the GitHub API could not be parsed. Please try to retrieve the resource again."

Tower then acts as if the repo was not created, but if I log into GitHub, I see it was.

If I don't enter anything into the "description" field, everything works as it should.

Answer 1

This is indeed a bug in current versions of Tower. However, as you already noticed, the repository gets created successfully - it's only the error message that's incorrect. Until we fix this, the simple workaround is to clone the repository like any other repo with the standard "Clone Remote Repository" dialog.