Private GitHub stack templates don't work with the releases/latest/download/{filename} url structure

[johnmberger]

What version of Remix are you using?

1.7.2

Steps to Reproduce

Instantiate a stack using a template from a private GitHub repo, an access token, and the "latest" release url:

npx create-remix@latest ./my-new-project --template https://github.com/owner/repo/releases/latest/download/stack.tar.gz --token myaccesstoken

Expected Behavior

Since the https://github.com/owner/repo/releases/latest/download/stack.tar.gz url should always link to the latest release tag, I would expect the stack validation to work successfully and the remix project to initialize successfully.

Actual Behavior

The command fails with the following error: 🚨 The template file could not be verified. Please double check the URL and try again.

However, if you do know the latest release tag, manually include it, and try again:

npx create-remix@latest ./my-new-project --template https://github.com/owner/repo/releases/download/v.1.1/stack.tar.gz --token myaccesstoken

Then it works just fine.

I suspect this is because there's a quirk in the Github URL structure between the latest tag and a specified version (releases/latest/download vs. releases/download/version) and the Remix code isn't handling the former.

My org maintains a private Github monorepo that includes a stack tarball and it would be great to allow users to link directly to the latest release instead of having to know the exact version number.

[machour]

Thank you @johnmberger!

[github-actions]

🤖 Hello there,

We just published version v0.0.0-nightly-eebaa56-20221013 which involves this issue. If you'd like to take it for a test run please try it out and let us know what you think!

Thanks!