Suddenly get: Importing into a repository with actions enabled is currently not supported. Please disable actions and try again.

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Hi,

I have a powershell script that does at regular bases a repository import after creating it.

    $Body="{""name"":""$RepoItem"", ""public"":""false""}"
    
    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $OwnerUrl -Method Post -Headers @{Authorization=("$Bearer")} -Body $Body

    $Body = "{""vcs_url"":""https://dev.azure.com/_git/$RepoItem"",""vcs_username"":""$vcs_username"",""vcs_password"":""$vcs_password""}"

    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $RepoUrl/import -Method Put -Headers @{Authorization=("$Bearer")} -Body $Body

It ran fine for a long time but if I run it now I get following error:

Invoke-RestMethod : {"message":"Importing into a repository with actions enabled is currently not supported. Please disable actions and try again.","documentation_url":"https://docs.github.c
om/rest/migrations/source-imports#start-an-import"}

Is there a way to disable actions via api?

[nd-sign]

I tried you api call after creating the repo and before doing the import but I still get the same error during the import.

    $Body="{""name"":""$RepoItem"", ""public"":""false""}"
    
    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $OwnerUrl -Method Post -Headers @{Authorization=("$Bearer")} -Body $Body

    $Body = @{ "actions_enabled" = $false } | ConvertTo-Json

    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $RepoUrl -Method Patch -Headers @{Authorization=("$Bearer")} -Body $Body
    
    Write-Host "Importing the repo"

    $Body = "{""vcs_url"":""https://dev.azure.com/_git/$RepoItem"",""vcs_username"":""$vcs_username"",""vcs_password"":""$vcs_password""}"

    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $RepoUrl/import -Method Put -Headers @{Authorization=("$Bearer")} -Body $Body

  

[nd-sign]

Hi,

I am using the correct url.

    $RepoUrl = "https://api.github.com/repos/nd-sign/$RepoItem"
    $OwnerUrl = "https://api.github.com/user/repos"

I also don't get an error on the disable action. I do on the import.

[nd-sign]

Can you propose the last one as answer, I'll make a script around it.
But that should work.

[StefanD986]

To anyone who has this issue: With the following API call you can disable github actions:

PUT https://api.github.com/repos/{{OWNER}}/{{project_name}}/actions/permissions
Accept: application/vnd.github+json
Authorization: Bearer {{github_access_token}}
X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

{"enabled":false}

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