Unable to use External Source Repository

I tried to enable External Source Repository for a the project demo-actions. When opening Studio I got an error in a pop-up window:

Error: state='SAFE', dir='/var/lib/nuxeo/studio/workspaces/demo-actions/demo-actions-#1731-cloned-2024-08-15-19-01-21/.git', HEAD='ref: refs/heads/master' | Failed to push

Issue occurred around 12:00 Pacific time on August 15, 2024.

Preface: I already had a copy of the Studio project sync'd to my machine via git access.

Here are the steps I took:

1. I created a new repo on GitHub named "demo-actions" (https://github.com/nuxeo-sandbox/demo-actions/); at this point the repo was empty
2. I edited the settings for my Studio project at "Connect dashboard 'My Studio Projects' page, locate your Studio project and click on the 'Edit' button."
3. I entered the git url (https://github.com/nuxeo-sandbox/demo-actions.git), username, password and saved
4. I refreshed Studio and got the error above

I thought maybe it's because the GitHub repo was empty, so then I did:

1. Locally I changed the repo URL in GitHub desktop to point to GitHub instead of connect and did a force push
2. Refresh Studio, still have the same error