microsoft / microsoft/pxt-microbit
"GitHub rate limit exceeded" when trying to push to a GitHub repo
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- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
I've got this message for the first time this morning (UK time). This was simply after opening MakeCode, importing a GitHub URL, making a few changes, and trying to push (at this point it asked me to login into GitHub, which I did). No other MakeCode/GitHub activity done before that, so very unlikely that I have been really hitting the rate limit.
I then waited over an hour and tried again, same error.
Is the GitHub rate limit exceeded, please wait and try again message produced by MakeCode or the GitHub API actual response?
It's possible there is a different API error being accidentally identified as a rate limit?
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the MakeCode flow described: open MakeCode, import a GitHub URL, make changes, sign in, and try to push. Inspect the GitHub API response and the error classification; done means distinguishing an actual rate-limit response from another API error and reporting the correct message.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github, typescript
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100