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insights: Provide better error message for lang stats live preview on empty repo

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#37,047 opened on Jun 10, 2022

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Description

The error message returned when attempting to live preview the language stats of an empty repo does not indicate what the problem is. Search insights return the error Data for this repository not found.

Related to https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/35450

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Locate the error message 'Data for this repository not found' in the insights backend code and change it to a more descriptive message indicating the repository is empty.
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go
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backend
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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70