From b76f370a3f8993638cad91547491b46631776f59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 01:10:22 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix 500 when pushing release to an empty repo (#29554)
 (#29564)

Backport #29554 by @lng2020

As title.
The former code directly used `ctx.Repo.GitRepo`, causing 500.

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/22b4f0c09f1de5e581929bd10f39833d30d2c482/routers/api/v1/repo/release.go#L241

Co-authored-by: Nanguan Lin <nanguanlin6@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit b84303ef6e73e2436f0c4c3985020be6bbbb5d1e)
---
 routers/api/v1/repo/release.go | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/routers/api/v1/repo/release.go b/routers/api/v1/repo/release.go
index 6c70bffca3..dee6ae58bb 100644
--- a/routers/api/v1/repo/release.go
+++ b/routers/api/v1/repo/release.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 package repo
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/models"
@@ -221,6 +222,10 @@ func CreateRelease(ctx *context.APIContext) {
 	//   "409":
 	//     "$ref": "#/responses/error"
 	form := web.GetForm(ctx).(*api.CreateReleaseOption)
+	if ctx.Repo.Repository.IsEmpty {
+		ctx.Error(http.StatusUnprocessableEntity, "RepoIsEmpty", fmt.Errorf("repo is empty"))
+		return
+	}
 	rel, err := repo_model.GetRelease(ctx, ctx.Repo.Repository.ID, form.TagName)
 	if err != nil {
 		if !repo_model.IsErrReleaseNotExist(err) {