https://tsvinc.dev/tags/gitlab/ Recent content in Gitlab on tsvinc Hugo en-us Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://tsvinc.dev/posts/gitlab-delete-project-renames-it/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://tsvinc.dev/posts/gitlab-delete-project-renames-it/ <p><strong>22:41:05 UTC.</strong> The scrubbed history is ready: one orphan commit, nothing personal in it. The old history is parked on a local branch called <code>old-history-local</code>, just in case.</p> <p><strong>22:41:09.</strong> <code>glab api -X DELETE projects/&lt;group&gt;%2F&lt;repo&gt;</code>. The answer is the shortest thing GitLab will ever say:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span class="line"><span class="cl">{&#34;message&#34;:&#34;202 Accepted&#34;} </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">still exists: &lt;group&gt;/&lt;repo&gt;-deletion_scheduled-&lt;id&gt; marked_for_deletion_on= 2026-10-11 </span></span></code></pre></div><p><strong>Five seconds later</strong>, the second line. That one is a Python one-liner of mine over <code>GET /projects/:id</code> on the original path, and it was supposed to print a 404. Instead the project answered, under a name with a suffix bolted on.</p>