github_remote_list() not picking up GHE host

[tsahota]

Hi I'm having trouble using usethis::use_github_release() on a GHE host:

> usethis::use_github_release()
Error in `stop_bad_github_remote_config()` at usethis/R/utils-github.R:615:4:
! Unsupported GitHub remote configuration: 'no_github'
• Host = NA
• origin = <not configured>
• upstream = <not configured>
• Neither 'origin' nor 'upstream' is a GitHub repo.

Here is my remote (note no 'github' string is present in the hostname):

> gert::git_remote_list()
# A tibble: 1 × 2
  name   url                                                  
* <chr>  <chr>                                                
1 origin https://ghe-gsk-prod.metworx.com/account/reponame

I believe the source of the issue is in github_remote_list() which contains the lines:

parsed <- parse_github_remotes(set_names(x$url, x$name))
# TODO: generalize here for GHE hosts that don't include 'github'
is_github <- grepl("github", parsed$host)

and since 'github' doesn't match anything in https://ghe-gsk-prod.metworx.com/account/reponame, this causes the issue above. The TODO comment indicates that the author was aware.

This was introduced in commit 43f6d2d and I'd be grateful if this useful function could be made to work on non 'github' matching GHE host names!

[jennybc]

Yeah, basically I was waiting to see if anyone actually felt this pain. The simplest thing to do when introducing GHE support was to recognize such a host by looking for "github". I'm not entirely sure what I will do about this, but thanks for opening the issue. It's good to know that someone has banged their shins on this in real life.

In the meantime, have you considered renaming your GHE instance? 😜

[tsahota]

OK thanks. I've opted to make my own little version without the is_github test. But hopefully there can be an easy solution to this in future, then I can get rid of my hack and... usethis