Why am I getting GitHub integration errors on my ecommerce store?

Topic summary

GitHub integration into a Shopify store (Impulse theme) completes export, but deployment logs show validation errors preventing overwriting of generated assets. The process reports: “Creating new theme from GitHub branch” and “Files fetched,” followed by four failures.

Errors (4 files):

  • assets/ico-select.sg → Cannot overwrite generated asset ‘assets/ico-****select.svg’.
  • assets/country-flags.css → Cannot overwrite generated asset ‘assets/coun try-flags.css’.
  • assets/ico-select-footer.sg → Cannot overwrite generated asset ‘assets/ico-select-footer.svg’.
  • assets/ico-select-drawer.sg → Cannot overwrite generated asset ‘assets/ico-select-drawer.svg’.

Outcome: 180 succeeded, 0 warnings, 4 failed; theme still shows “Theme updated!” despite failures.

Key detail: “Generated asset” indicates files automatically produced by the theme/platform that the integration is blocking from being overwritten via GitHub.

Attachments: Two screenshots of the log/errors are included but the essential details are captured in the text.

Status: Poster asks if others are experiencing the same issue; no solutions or follow-ups yet. Discussion remains open with the main question being how to handle/generated-file conflicts during GitHub-based theme updates.

Summarized with AI on January 27. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi team - I’ve recently integrated GitHub onto my shopify store (impulse theme). My git repo appears to export fine into shopify, however when I ‘view logs’ in the git theme, i’m getting the following error messages. Anyone else having this problem?

08:40:59:

Creating new theme from GitHub branch

08:40:59: Files fetched

08:41:00: **Error: assets/ico-select.sg, Validation failed: Cannot overwrite generated asset 'assets/ico-**select.svg’.

08:41:04: Error: assets/country-flags.css, Validation failed: Cannot overwrite generated asset ‘assets/country-flags.css’.

08:41:05: Error: assets/ico-select-footer.sg, Validation failed: Cannot overwrite generated asset ‘assets/ico-select-footer.svg’.

08:41:05: Error: assets/ico-select-drawer.sg, Validation failed: Cannot overwrite generated asset ‘assets/ico-select-drawer.svg’.

08:41:09: 180 succeeded, 0 warnings, 4 failed

08:41:09:

Theme updated!