From 5d5df27457e00680e8efa78d9078a61ef2c27d2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:43:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure that GitRepo is set on Empty repositories

Both issues/new and settings/hooks/git expect `ctx.Repo.GitRepo` to be set.
This PR changes the context code to open the GitRepo.

Fixes #8538
---
 modules/context/repo.go | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/context/repo.go b/modules/context/repo.go
index e891e7b85cd58..e2aebc019cddf 100644
--- a/modules/context/repo.go
+++ b/modules/context/repo.go
@@ -414,8 +414,8 @@ func RepoAssignment() macaron.Handler {
 			}
 		}
 
-		// repo is empty and display enable
-		if ctx.Repo.Repository.IsEmpty || ctx.Repo.Repository.IsBeingCreated() {
+		// Disable everything when the repo is being created
+		if ctx.Repo.Repository.IsBeingCreated() {
 			ctx.Data["BranchName"] = ctx.Repo.Repository.DefaultBranch
 			return
 		}
@@ -427,6 +427,12 @@ func RepoAssignment() macaron.Handler {
 		}
 		ctx.Repo.GitRepo = gitRepo
 
+		// Stop at this point when the repo is empty.
+		if ctx.Repo.Repository.IsEmpty {
+			ctx.Data["BranchName"] = ctx.Repo.Repository.DefaultBranch
+			return
+		}
+
 		tags, err := ctx.Repo.GitRepo.GetTags()
 		if err != nil {
 			ctx.ServerError("GetTags", err)