Improve error message for third-party template 404s #5920
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Changes
Adds a helpful error message when a third-party template passed to
create astro
is not found.Inspired by Wrong starter template description (and typo) docs#2372
Currently if a user passes
--template username/repo
andgiget
fails to load that repo, the command fails and says "does not exist!":A common cause is that the template repo does not have a
main
branch (whichgiget
assumes by default and we have no way of guessing without calling the GitHub API), so the updated error message adds some pointersTesting
Don’t think this needs tests as it’s just a log message?
Docs
Arguably entirely docs!