Unable to delete repository

[Config Sync CI Bot]

We have two obsolete repositories in this workspace that cannot be deleted, their status is currently unknown with 0B, the page wouldn't load when trying to open.

We've seen similar issue before https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Bitbucket-questions/Unable-to-delete-Git-repositories-due-to-Repository-currently/qaq-p/2713100#M104729. In our test the repository creation succeeded but the proceeding push events failed with message `repository is currently not available`, and the symptom continued when the test tried to remove this obsolete repo. 

We are wondering if there are more detailed error messages to understand what exactly was the issue that caused the repo to stuck in an unhealthy state. Thanks in advance!

[Ben · Accepted solution]

G'day!

Unfortunately, this is due to an existing bug with the repository creation logic which can sometimes cause the repository to become stuck during the creation/import process - there is no way of preventing it from a user perspective. We have a bug ticket logged with our developers, however, to prevent this from happening - please feel free to Watch it for future updates and click This Affects My Team to improve its visibility in terms of priority:

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-22265

I can see you have access to over 30k repositories spread across multiple workspaces, can you please let me know just the repository name so I can delete it in the backend? We already have the workspaces you have access to, so please don't share the full URL/workspaceID + repo combination as this is a public forum.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[Config Sync CI Bot]

Hi! Thanks for taking a look!

The repos persisting in this workspace are configmanagementsystemrootsync4fbde0a92d954008940012a173183069 and testnsreposyncd33a9fb2ac34429aa5f95bc94fc90b6a, others are correctly functioning, would appreciate if you can remove them from backend.

[Ben]

Hi @Config Sync CI Bot 

I have deleted those two stuck repositories - you can now re-create them :)

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)