Overview

Sometimes a project appears in Snyk with an odd or unfamiliar Project name, commonly seen as /file://nothing

Cause

When importing a project, Snyk will look inside the .git/config file for the remote origin URL and use that as the Project name

We have seen instances where a 3rd party Continuous Integration tool is adding the following to the project's .git/config:

[remote "origin"]
        url = file://nothing

Resolution

There are two ways to solve this issue:

1) Update the .git/config file to remove or update the remote origin URL

2) If using the CLI monitor command, use the --remote-repo-url argument to override the Project's group name.