Users cannot enable Pull Mirroring on projects created from templates

Summary

User cannot enable Pull Repository Mirroring on a project that was created from a Custom project template. The mirror process never completes and the user is unable to force update. They only get the following error message.

  "import_error": "Import timed out. Import took longer than 86400 seconds",

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a custom project template in one of your groups by following the documentation.
2. On your group, create a project using one of the templates.
3. Once the project is created, you can verify the status using the Project Import API and confirm it is finished.

  "import_status": "finished",

4. Enable Pull Repository mirroring
5. Observe that the import will never complete and you will eventually get the following status.

  "import_status": "scheduled",
  "import_type": "gitlab_custom_project_template",
  "import_error": "Import timed out. Import took longer than 86400 seconds",

Example Project

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-gold/kballon/bug-mirror-project-from-project-template

What is the current bug behavior?

The pull mirror never completes the update.

What is the expected correct behavior?

The pull mirror should complete the update.

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

• Import from a newly created repository from a project template.

{
  "id": 94,
  "description": null,
  "name": "tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "name_with_namespace": "test-root-group / tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "path": "tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "path_with_namespace": "test-root-group/tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "created_at": "2023-02-09T01:04:49.842Z",
  "import_status": "finished",
  "import_type": "gitlab_custom_project_template",
  "correlation_id": null,
  "failed_relations": [],
  "import_error": null,
  "stats": null
}

• Import after enabling Pull mirroring.

{
  "id": 94,
  "description": null,
  "name": "tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "name_with_namespace": "test-root-group / tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "path": "tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "path_with_namespace": "test-root-group/tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "created_at": "2023-02-09T01:04:49.842Z",
  "import_status": "scheduled",
  "import_type": "gitlab_custom_project_template",
  "correlation_id": null,
  "failed_relations": [],
  "import_error": null,
  "stats": null
}

• After some time, the import_error is updated to this:

{
  "id": 94,
  "description": null,
  "name": "tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "name_with_namespace": "test-root-group / tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "path": "tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "path_with_namespace": "test-root-group/tp-02-non-empty-template",
  "created_at": "2023-02-09T01:04:49.842Z",
  "import_status": "scheduled",
  "import_type": "gitlab_custom_project_template",
  "correlation_id": null,
  "failed_relations": [],
  "import_error": "Import timed out. Import took longer than 86400 seconds",
  "stats": null
}

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Possible fixes