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Unexpected error when GitHub returns 422 #229

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@jeroen
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opened on Jan 2, 2026

I am seeing this error

Error in do.call(rbind, errors) : second argument must be a list
Calls: <Anonymous> ... gh_make_request -> gh_error -> as.data.frame -> do.call

It originates here:

gh/R/gh.R

Line 359 in e9194ae

errors <- as.data.frame(do.call(rbind, errors))

For this response:

Browse[1]> res
$message
[1] "Validation Failed"

$errors
[1] "Validation failed: This SHA and context has reached the maximum number of statuses."

$documentation_url
[1] "https://docs.github.com/rest/commits/statuses#create-a-commit-status"

$status
[1] "422"

So the problem is that errors is just a string and not a data frame?

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  1. gaborcsardi commented on May 26, 2026

    @gaborcsardi
    gaborcsardi
    on May 26, 2026
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    The workflow run is gone now, do you have a way to reproduce this?

  2. gaborcsardi
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    reprexneeds a minimal reproducible example
    on May 26, 2026
  3. gaborcsardi
    closed this as completedin 6d0d5dfon May 27, 2026

  4. jeroen commented on Jun 22, 2026

    @jeroen
    jeroen
    on Jun 22, 2026
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    For future reference, the http 422 can be reproduced by posting an invalid state or sha value to the commit status API:

    sha <- gh::gh('/repos/r-lib/gert/commits')[[1]]$sha
gh::gh('/repos/r-lib/gert/statuses/{sha}', sha = sha, .method = 'POST', state = 'BLABLABLA',
       context = 'test/test', description = 'This is a test')
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