Hi, we are managing a lot of sites via the Netlify API and we’ve recently encountered problems when renaming repositories after a site is created. Builds will consistently fail with the following message: Failed during stage 'preparing repo': error checking for ref: Warning: Permanently added 'gith…

I tried using the PUT request, and it seems like it’s working ok now. We need to test it further, but looks like it worked. Thanks for the help @hrishikesh

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hrishikesh January 19, 2022, 6:53pm 3

Hey @GonzaloHirschToptal,

Does this help:

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