When importing an existing repo to github_repository, how do you fix Schrödinger's repo?

Background

My estate-repos repo,

• defines repos in repos.yaml.
• uses the github/repo module from tofu-modules to create the repos using sensible defaults.

Goal: Import manually created repos

I am attempting to import a repo that I (sadly) created manually before I built estate-repos, into estate-repos.

Expectation

import {
  to = module.github_repository["estate-config"].github_repository.repo
  id = "evoteum/estate-config"
}

This should result in the existing repo being successfully imported into tofu management.

Reality

With the import block in place, tofu apply returns the following error;

 module.github_repository["estate-config"].github_repository.repo: Refreshing state... [id=evoteum/estate-config]
╷
│ Error: Cannot import non-existent remote object
│ 
│ While attempting to import an existing object to
│ "module.github_repository[\"estate-config\"].github_repository.repo", the
│ provider detected that no object exists with the given id. Only
│ pre-existing objects can be imported; check that the id is correct and that
│ it is associated with the provider's configured region or endpoint, or use
│ "tofu apply" to create a new remote object for this resource.
╵

If I remove the import block, tofu apply returns,

 module.github_repository["estate-config"].github_repository.repo: Creating...
╷
│ Error: POST https://api.github.com/orgs/evoteum/repos: 422 Repository creation failed. [{Resource:Repository Field:name Code:custom Message:name already exists on this account}]
│ 
│   with module.github_repository["estate-config"].github_repository.repo,
│   on .terraform/modules/github_repository/github/repo/main.tofu line 11, in resource "github_repository" "repo":
│   11: resource "github_repository" "repo" {
│ 
╵
Error: OpenTofu exited with code 1.
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Furthermore, both the gh CLI and the API confirm that the repo is available.

Setup

• running OpenTofu within GitHub Actions.
• estate-repos runs using a GitHub app "evoteumbot"
• evoteumbot has the following permissions;
  • repository.actions=write
  • repository.administration=write
  • repository.contents=write
  • repository.metadata=read
  • repository.secrets=write
  • repository.variables=write
  • organization.administration=write
  • organization.secrets=write
  • organization.variables=write
• evoteumbot has successfully created several repos already.
• I get the same response when using a Personal Access Token with all permissions.
• versions:
  • OpenTofu v1.9.0
  • github provider v6.5.0
• running tofu state list returns;

module.github_repository[".github"].github_branch.main
module.github_repository[".github"].github_branch_default.main
module.github_repository[".github"].github_repository.repo
module.github_repository[".github"].github_repository_file.readme
module.github_repository["discussions"].github_branch.main
module.github_repository["discussions"].github_branch_default.main
module.github_repository["discussions"].github_repository.repo
module.github_repository["discussions"].github_repository_file.readme
module.github_repository["estate-reusable-workflows"].github_branch.main
module.github_repository["estate-reusable-workflows"].github_branch_default.main
module.github_repository["estate-reusable-workflows"].github_repository.repo
module.github_repository["estate-reusable-workflows"].github_repository_file.readme
module.github_repository["evoteum.github.io"].github_branch.main
module.github_repository["evoteum.github.io"].github_branch_default.main
module.github_repository["evoteum.github.io"].github_repository.repo
module.github_repository["evoteum.github.io"].github_repository_file.readme
module.github_repository["planzoco"].github_branch.main
module.github_repository["planzoco"].github_branch_default.main
module.github_repository["planzoco"].github_repository.repo
module.github_repository["planzoco"].github_repository_file.readme
module.github_repository["testy-mctestface"].github_branch.main
module.github_repository["testy-mctestface"].github_branch_default.main
module.github_repository["testy-mctestface"].github_repository.repo
module.github_repository["testy-mctestface"].github_repository_file.readme

Question

Since we have confirmed that the API is aware that repo does exist, so why is the GitHub Terraform provider saying that it both does and does not exist? What am I doing wrong?

When you import to the github_repository you need to use the name. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/integrations/github/latest/docs/resources/repository#import

Repositories can be imported using the name

In your repos file your names are just the repo name, but in your import your prefixing it with owner. but your PAT token will already be associated with that and likely its getting prefixed so your import becomes evoteum/evoteum/estate-config

I have been able to reproduce this issue with

resource "github_repository" "repo" {
  name = "killercoda"
}

import {
  id = "cdsre/killercoda"
  to = github_repository.repo
}

$ terraform apply
github_repository.repo: Preparing import... [id=cdsre/killercoda]
github_repository.repo: Refreshing state... [id=cdsre/killercoda]
╷
│ Error: Cannot import non-existent remote object
│
│ While attempting to import an existing object to "github_repository.repo", the provider detected that no object exists with the given id. Only pre-existing objects can be imported; check that the id  
│ is correct and that it is associated with the provider's configured region or endpoint, or use "terraform apply" to create a new remote object for this resource.
╵

When I remove my user prefix from the id in the import

github_repository.repo: Importing... [id=killercoda]
github_repository.repo: Import complete [id=killercoda]
github_repository.repo: Modifying... [id=killercoda]
github_repository.repo: Modifications complete after 2s [id=killercoda]

Apply complete! Resources: 1 imported, 0 added, 1 changed, 0 destroyed.

Edit I have checked in the github terraform provider source code and can see this is exactly whats occuring https://github.com/integrations/terraform-provider-github/blob/main/github/resource_github_repository.go#L628

func resourceGithubRepositoryRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
    client := meta.(*Owner).v3client

    owner := meta.(*Owner).name
    repoName := d.Id()
...
...

    repo, resp, err := client.Repositories.Get(ctx, owner, repoName)