feat: Enable /setup-github to always run, and error appropriately (#5653)

Co-authored-by: Jacob Richman <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/packages/cli/src/ui/commands/setupGithubCommand.ts b/packages/cli/src/ui/commands/setupGithubCommand.ts
index 445c0e76..047e11eb 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/ui/commands/setupGithubCommand.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/ui/commands/setupGithubCommand.ts
@@ -19,12 +19,21 @@ export const setupGithubCommand: SlashCommand = {
   description: 'Set up GitHub Actions',
   kind: CommandKind.BUILT_IN,
   action: (): SlashCommandActionReturn => {
-    const gitRootRepo = execSync('git rev-parse --show-toplevel', {
-      encoding: 'utf-8',
-    }).trim();
-
     if (!isGitHubRepository()) {
-      throw new Error('Unable to determine the Git root directory.');
+      throw new Error(
+        'Unable to determine the GitHub repository. /setup-github must be run from a git repository.',
+      );
+    }
+
+    let gitRootRepo: string;
+    try {
+      gitRootRepo = execSync('git rev-parse --show-toplevel', {
+        encoding: 'utf-8',
+      }).trim();
+    } catch {
+      throw new Error(
+        'Unable to determine the GitHub repository. /setup-github must be run from a git repository.',
+      );
     }
 
     const version = 'v0';