yamadashy/repomix · warning · RepomixError

GitHub server error. Please try again later.

Error message

GitHub server error. Please try again later.

What it means

GitHub returned one of the server-side error statuses 500, 502, 503, or 504, meaning the request was valid but GitHub's infrastructure failed to serve the archive. The library surfaces it as a plain retryable error instead of the raw status.

Source

Thrown at src/core/git/gitHubArchiveApi.ts:62

    );
  }

  if (response.status === 403) {
    const rateLimitRemaining = response.headers.get('X-RateLimit-Remaining');
    if (rateLimitRemaining === '0') {
      const resetTime = response.headers.get('X-RateLimit-Reset');
      const resetDate = resetTime ? new Date(Number.parseInt(resetTime, 10) * 1000) : null;
      throw new RepomixError(
        `GitHub API rate limit exceeded. ${resetDate ? `Rate limit resets at ${resetDate.toISOString()}` : 'Please try again later.'}`,
      );
    }
    throw new RepomixError(
      'Access denied. The repository might be private or you might not have permission to access it.',
    );
  }

  if (response.status === 500 || response.status === 502 || response.status === 503 || response.status === 504) {
    throw new RepomixError('GitHub server error. Please try again later.');
  }

  if (!response.ok) {
    throw new RepomixError(`GitHub API error: ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`);
  }
};

View on GitHub (pinned to f465ad9093)

Solutions

1. Retry after a short delay — these statuses are transient by definition.
2. Check https://www.githubstatus.com for an ongoing incident and wait it out if present.
3. For consistently timing-out huge repos, fall back to `git clone` and run repomix on the local checkout.
4. If behind a proxy, confirm the 5xx comes from GitHub and not your own gateway (inspect response headers).

const status = await fetch('https://api.github.com/').then(r => r.status).catch(() => 0);
if (status >= 500) throw new Error('GitHub is having server issues; retry later.');

try {
  await pack({ remote: url });
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof RepomixError && e.message.includes('GitHub server error')) {
    // 5xx is transient: exponential backoff retry
    await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 10000));
  } else throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: checkGitHubResponse receives status 500, 502, 503, or 504 from the GitHub API/archive endpoint — a transient GitHub-side outage or gateway timeout while generating/serving the archive.

Common situations: GitHub incidents (check githubstatus.com); very large repositories causing archive generation timeouts; momentary load-balancer blips during peak traffic.

Related errors

• Failed to download GitHub archive after ${retries} attempts.
• No response body received
• Repository not found or is private. Please check the reposit
• GitHub API rate limit exceeded. ${resetDate ? `Rate limit re
• Access denied. The repository might be private or you might

AI-assisted analysis of yamadashy/repomix@f465ad9093 (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b92886c7e6077758. Report an issue: GitHub.