Xcode 13 git pull fails with "The project you were looking for could not be found..."

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Xcode 13 git pull fails with "The project you were looking for could not be found..."

I have a project open in Xcode 13.4.1. The project has a git repo, and I can interact with it perfectly through a command line. Inside Xcode it lists the same repo (loaded from GitLab over SSH with keys set via .gitconfig), the remotes and branches are visible, all looks good. When I go to Source Control -> Pull... and select the remote I want (origin/main), it fails with this error:

An unknown error occurred.
ERROR: The project you were looking for could not be found or you don't have permission to view it.

In a terminal, if I cd to the same directory and run `git pull`, it works fine. Similarly I can open the same project in a JetBrains IDE and git pull works fine from there too.

Is there some special incantation I need to make XCode use this repo?

Posted on Jul 7, 2022 1:19 AM

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etresoft

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Jul 7, 2022 4:48 AM in response to Marcus Bointon

Make sure your gitlab account is setup in Xcode preferences > Accounts. Without that, Xcode will be able to see all the git information because it is stored in the project’s git config, but it won’t be able to perform any accounts. Xcode does not use any information from the command line environment.

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Answer 2

Jul 7, 2022 8:21 AM in response to Marcus Bointon

Reload the access token into Xcode, and try again:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/661528

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etresoft

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Jul 7, 2022 7:46 AM in response to Marcus Bointon

You can try "Refresh File Status". If that doesn't work, you can try to clone a new copy of the project using Xcode.

Unfortunately, Xcode's SCM support has always been quite poor. I don't use GitLab or ssh, so I don't know what to expect. But given the number of problems I have with straight-up GitHub, I can't imagine it would be better.

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Answer 4

Jul 7, 2022 8:14 AM in response to etresoft

OK, I guess I'll fall back to using the CLI git client for this.

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Answer 5

Jul 7, 2022 5:25 AM in response to etresoft

Thanks, I didn't know I needed to do that. I've now set up my GitLab account in XCode, and it selected my correct SSH key, but doing a pull still gives the same error. It's not clear to me how it knows to associate the Xcode Gitlab account with the git checkout.

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Xcode 13 git pull fails with "The project you were looking for could not be found..."

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