Description of problem:

Issue in pac controller

```

{"level":"info","ts":"2024-06-17T09:05:38.164Z","logger":"pipelinesascode","caller":"events/emit.go:48","msg":"cannot locate templates in .tekton/ directory for this repository in savitaashture-patch-112","commit":"fdf40db","provider":"github","event-id":"c213b2e0-2c88-11ef-9445-e422906a09c3","event-sha":"48203eed28c3bbab917add84967ac230140601a1","event-type":"pull_request","namespace":"test-pac-pipelines"} {"level":"info","ts":"2024-06-17T09:10:15.995Z","logger":"pipelinesascode","caller":"adapter/adapter.go:140","msg":"detected global repository settings named pipelines-as-code in namespace pipelines-as-code","commit":"fdf40db"}

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x20 pc=0xc6a63b] goroutine 3120 [running]: github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/apis/pipelinesascode/v1alpha1.(*Settings).Merge(...) github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/apis/pipelinesascode/v1alpha1/types.go:110 github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/apis/pipelinesascode/v1alpha1.(*RepositorySpec).Merge(0x279b808?, {0xc0010cb388,

{0x0, 0x0}

, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc0004a6be8, 0xc000ec8120}) github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/apis/pipelinesascode/v1alpha1/types.go:87 +0x7b github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/pipelineascode.(*PacRun).verifyRepoAndUser(0xc0011a6120, {0x279b808, 0xc0005675c0}) github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/pipelineascode/match.go:64 +0x165 github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/pipelineascode.(*PacRun).matchRepoPR(0xc0011a6120, {0x279b808, 0xc0005675c0}) github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/pipelineascode/match.go:25 +0x26 github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/pipelineascode.(*PacRun).Run(0xc0011a6120, {0x279b808?, 0xc0005675c0}) github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/pipelineascode/pipelineascode.go:57 +0x45 github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/adapter.(*sinker).processEvent(0xc000bc1800, {0x279b808, 0xc0005675c0}, 0xc0011c0d00?) github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/adapter/sinker.go:60 +0x392 github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/adapter.(*listener).Start.listener.handleEvent.func2.1() github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/adapter/adapter.go:194 +0x2c created by github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/adapter.(*listener).Start.listener.handleEvent.func2 in goroutine 3119 github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code/pkg/adapter/adapter.go:193 +0x9e5

```

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Steps to Reproduce

• Initially I did set pipelinerun_provenance for global repo

  apiVersion: pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/v1alpha1
  kind: Repository
  metadata:  
    name: pipelines-as-code  
    namespace: openshift-pipelines
  spec:  
    params:    
    - name: custom      
      value: "value"  
    settings:    
      pipelinerun_provenance: "default_branch" 

• Sent a pullrequest
• Then i observed above error in PAC controller

 

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