From 221b2fe21ab65afb2169b4507285e8a10467d894 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rhys Arkins <rhys@arkins.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 13:19:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?fix(gitlab):=20catch/throw=20=E2=80=98empty?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=99=20error?=
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---
 lib/platform/gitlab/index.js | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/platform/gitlab/index.js b/lib/platform/gitlab/index.js
index 337b19d1a2..5c5e6bdbf2 100644
--- a/lib/platform/gitlab/index.js
+++ b/lib/platform/gitlab/index.js
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ async function initRepo({
     await Promise.all([getPrList(), getFileList()]);
   } catch (err) /* istanbul ignore next */ {
     logger.debug('Caught initRepo error');
+    if (err.message.includes('HEAD is not a symbolic ref')) {
+      throw new Error('empty');
+    }
     if (err.message === 'archived') {
       throw err;
     }
-- 
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