Repositories exclusion not working for empty repos

[edro15]

Problem Description

I have this deployment-settings.yml:

restrictedRepos:
  exclude:
    - repo-A
    - repo-B
    - myrepo

Settings are NOT enforced on myrepo as expected, but such enforcement is triggered on both repo-A and repo-B. Such enforcement fails cause repo-A and repo-B are still empty and an error is thrown.

What is actually happening

The settings enforcement is triggered even if repository is listed among the excluded ones.

What is the expected behavior

That the excluded repositories are actually excluded by any kind of attempt of settings enforcement.

Error output, if available

Error applying branch protection.

 {
  "name":"HttpError",
  "status":404,
  "data": {
    "message":"Branch not found",
    "documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/rest/branches/branch-protection#update-branch-protection",
    "status":"404"
  }
}

Such error is totally fair cause the repos are effectively empty. But why does it matter since the repo should be excluded? It seems such exclusion is ignored.

Context

Are you using the hosted instance of probot/settings or running your own?

My own, deployed via Github action as per documentation

If running your own instance, are you using it with github.com or GitHub Enterprise?

github.com

Version of probot/settings

probot/13.4.4

Version of GitHub Enterprise