Problem

Digger wassporadically showing git cloning errors in repositories that don't have Digger configured:

• "Error loading digger config: error loading digger.yml: error cloning and loading config: git command failed: exit status 128"
• "gnutls_handshake() failed: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated"

Root Cause

These issue appear to occur when the background projects refresh service and GitHub Actions process repositories without digger.yml files:

1. Background projects refresh service clones repositories from the organization
2. Repositories without digger.yml files get processed withgenerateProjects=true
3. Empty configuration triggers terragrunt parsing if terragrunt files exist in those repositories
4. Terragrunt parsing attempts to clone remote repositories referenced in terragrunt configurations
5. Network/TLS issues cause git cloning failures

ThegenerateProjects=true parameter is hardcoded in multiple places, e.g.:

• GitHub Actions:cli/pkg/github/github.go:111
• Background Projects Refresh Service:background/projects-refresh-service/projects_refesh_main.go:49
• Backend GitHub Helpers:backend/controllers/github_helpers.go:865-866

Solution

ModifiedLoadDiggerConfigYaml function to handle missing configuration files gracefully by returning an empty configuration instead of an error when no config file is found.

Changes

• libs/digger_config/digger_config.go: Changed error handling to return empty configuration when no config file exists
• libs/digger_config/converters.go: Added nil check incopyWorkflowConfiguration to prevent panic when workflow config is nil
• libs/ci/github/github.go: Added nil pointer safety checks for GitHub payload processing with helper functionsgetStringValue andgetWorkflowCommands
• libs/digger_config/digger_config_test.go: Updated existing test and added new test to verify graceful handling
• cli/pkg/integration/integration_test.go: Fixed test JSON to include required sender and repository fields

Testing

• All existing tests continue to pass (verified with full test suite:go test -v)
• New tests verify that missing config files are handled gracefully both with and without project generation
• Existing test coverage ensures repositories with Digger configuration continue to work as expected

Impact

• Repositories without Digger configuration no longer show git cloning errors
• Maintains full backward compatibility for configured repositories
• Improves reliability of background projects refresh service and GitHub Actions
• Reduces noise in logs and error reporting

🧠AI Usage Details:

Used Claude (Anthropic's AI assistant) for:

• Code analysis and debugging asssitance to identify the root cause
• Root cause investigation and tracing through multiple components
• Implementation of the fix and test updates
• Code review and ensuring consistency with project style
• All code was reviewed and verified manually