Github Integration not working - branch isn't a valid theme

[notw]

Hello,

I am trying to add a theme to my theme library through the Github integration. I am able to upload it as a zip just fine but I can't do it through Github and need to as there will be constant changes made. I keep getting this error "Branch isn't a valid theme" at the last step when I clicked connect. Please see the screenshot below.

I haven't been able to find any documentation on how to fix this error. Could anyone please help?

Thank you

[MelissaR]

Have you found a solution to this yet?

[notw]

No, not yet 😢

[Kyle_Tully]

I'm sure there are numerous reasons for this error, but the cause of mine was an old line in my global gitignore file that was ignoring the config files (settings_data.json and settings_schema.json). Because of this, there was no config directory in github at all.

Once I removed those lines and pushed the config files it worked perfectly.

[CJ56]

Where is the global gitignore file located, please?

[Kyle_Tully]

On Mac it's in your home directory and called .gitignore_global -- it's a dot file so may be hidden by default.