Issue

There appears to be a breaking change somewhere in the Octokit .NET API / GitHub API for Updating a ref. The code is throwing an exception when trying to update the fork with upstream commits

The inner exception seems to be Object reference does not exist

Who does this affect

Anyone using wingetcreate update with --submit flag or using wingetcreate submit command. If their fork is out of sync with upstream microsoft/winget-pkgs, wingetcreate would first try to sync their fork and encounter the exception

Affected versions

This code has been the same for most versions of WinGet-Create, so almost all versions of winget-create would be failing

Workaround

The immediate workaround would be to sync your winget-pkgs fork manually before calling wingetcreate. You can do this via gh CLI using gh repo sync or via the GitHub UI. If you're using wingetcreate in a CI environment, you can add a step like

- name: Sync winget-pkgs fork
  run: gh repo sync <fork-owner>/winget-pkgs -b master
  env:
    GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.<TOKEN> }}