Enhance GithHub publishing logic to handle renamed repositories (microsoft#245024)

* Enhance GithHub publishing logic to handle renamed repositories.

* Make "result" const as it is never reassigned.

* Pull request feedback

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Co-authored-by: nomike <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Ladislau Szomoru <[email protected]>

Author: 3 people

extensions/github/src/publish.ts

@@ -99,8 +99,13 @@ export async function publishRepository(gitAPI: GitAPI, repository?: Repository)
 		if (repo) {
 			try {
 				quickpick.busy = true;
-				await octokit.repos.get({ owner, repo: repo });
-				quickpick.items = [{ label: `$(error) GitHub repository already exists`, description: `$(github) ${owner}/${repo}`, alwaysShow: true }];
+				const fullName = `${owner}/${repo}`;
+				const result = await octokit.repos.get({ owner, repo: repo });
+				if (result.data.full_name.toLowerCase() !== fullName.toLowerCase()) {
+					// Repository has moved permanently due to it being renamed
+					break;
+				}
+				quickpick.items = [{ label: `$(error) GitHub repository already exists`, description: `$(github) ${fullName}`, alwaysShow: true }];
 			} catch {
 				break;
 			} finally {