chenhg5/cc-connect · error

no releases found

Error message

no releases found

What it means

A sentinel from fetchLatestPreRelease: the GitHub releases API responded successfully with valid JSON but an empty array — the repository genuinely exposes no releases, so there is nothing to update or install.

Solutions

  1. Verify the repository actually has published releases on its GitHub Releases page
  2. If using a fork/mirror, point githubAllAPI at the upstream repo that publishes releases
  3. Check that releases aren't only drafts — publish them so the API returns them
  4. Skip auto-update and install the binary manually
Defensive patterns

Strategy: fallback

Validate before calling

// check the repo has releases before enabling auto-update:
resp, _ := http.Get("https://api.github.com/repos/<owner>/<repo>/releases?per_page=1")
var first []json.RawMessage
json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&first)
if len(first) == 0 { fmt.Println("upstream repo has no published releases; auto-update unavailable") }

Try / catch

// Go: treat empty release list as non-fatal
rel, err := fetchRelease()
if err != nil {
    if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no releases found") {
        log.Println("no upstream releases; skipping update check")
        return nil // graceful skip instead of failing the command
    }
    return err
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: The GET .../releases?per_page=10 succeeded with HTTP 200 and valid JSON, but len(releases) == 0: the target repository has zero published releases.

Common situations: Building from a fork or a repo that has never published a GitHub release; all releases deleted or drafts-only (drafts are not returned by the public API); updater pointed at a staging/dev mirror instead of the release repo; migration where releases weren't imported.

Understand the failure class

Background: EmptyResultError / "no results found": when an API or scraper succeeds but returns zero rows — this error's family across 9 libraries.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of chenhg5/cc-connect@4000b2338a (2026-09-06). Data as JSON: /api/errors/156074bc37aaac09. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at cmd/cc-connect/update.go:238

	req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/vnd.github.v3+json")

	resp, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("request failed: %w", err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("GitHub API returned HTTP %d", resp.StatusCode)
	}

	var releases []githubRelease
	if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&releases); err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("parse releases: %w", err)
	}

	if len(releases) == 0 {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no releases found")
	}

	// Return the first (newest) release, which may be a pre-release
	return &releases[0], nil
}

// fetchLatestStableRelease fetches the latest stable release (no pre-releases).
func fetchLatestStableRelease() (*githubRelease, error) {
	client := &http.Client{Timeout: 15 * time.Second}
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", githubAPI, nil)
	req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/vnd.github.v3+json")

	resp, err := client.Do(req)
	if err == nil {
		defer resp.Body.Close()
		if resp.StatusCode == 200 {
			var release githubRelease
			if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&release); err == nil {

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