diff --git a/src/reporters/CLIReporter.ts b/src/reporters/CLIReporter.ts
index e3a3380d6..354b410f2 100644
--- a/src/reporters/CLIReporter.ts
+++ b/src/reporters/CLIReporter.ts
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ export class CLIReporter implements IReporter {
       lines.push('----------------------------');
 
       for (const key in PracticeImpact) {
-        const impact = <PracticeImpact>PracticeImpact[key];
+        const impact = PracticeImpact[key as keyof typeof PracticeImpact];
 
         const impactLine = this.emitImpactSegment(cwp.practicesAndComponents, impact);
         impactLine && lines.push(impactLine);
diff --git a/src/services/git/Git.ts b/src/services/git/Git.ts
index 64b7d73ec..3d472ed95 100644
--- a/src/services/git/Git.ts
+++ b/src/services/git/Git.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ export class Git implements IProjectFilesBrowserService {
     let result = await this.getRepoContent(await this.followSymLinks(path));
     if (result !== null && !isArray(result)) {
       result = result as File;
+      if (!result.content) return '';
       return Buffer.from(result.content, result.encoding).toString('utf-8');
     } else {
       throw ErrorFactory.newInternalError(`${path} is not a file`);
diff --git a/src/services/git/GitHubService.ts b/src/services/git/GitHubService.ts
index b86662e49..dca3b43a5 100644
--- a/src/services/git/GitHubService.ts
+++ b/src/services/git/GitHubService.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import {
   PullCommits,
   IssueComment,
   Symlink,
+  RepoContentType,
 } from './model';
 import { ICVSService } from './ICVSService';
 import { Paginated } from '../../inspectors/common/Paginated';
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ import { ArgumentsProvider } from '../../inversify.config';
 import { ICache } from '../../scanner/cache/ICache';
 import { InMemoryCache } from '../../scanner/cache/InMemoryCahce';
 import { GitHubPullRequestState } from './IGitHubService';
+import { ErrorFactory } from '../../lib/errors';
 const debug = Debug('cli:services:git:github-service');
 
 @injectable()
@@ -288,24 +290,36 @@ export class GitHubService implements ICVSService {
         return null;
       }
 
-      return isArray(response.data)
-        ? response.data.map((item) => ({
-            name: item.name,
-            path: item.path,
-            sha: item.sha,
-            size: item.size,
-            type: item.type,
-          }))
-        : {
-            name: response.data.name,
-            path: response.data.path,
-            size: response.data.size,
-            sha: response.data.sha,
-            type: response.data.type,
-            content: response.data.content,
-            encoding: response.data.encoding,
-            target: response.data.target,
-          };
+      if (isArray(response.data)) {
+        return response.data.map((item) => ({
+          name: item.name,
+          path: item.path,
+          sha: item.sha,
+          size: item.size,
+          type: <RepoContentType>item.type,
+        }));
+      } else if (response.data.type === RepoContentType.file) {
+        return {
+          name: response.data.name,
+          path: response.data.path,
+          size: response.data.size,
+          sha: response.data.sha,
+          type: response.data.type,
+          content: response.data.content,
+          encoding: <BufferEncoding>response.data.encoding,
+        };
+      } else if (response.data.type === RepoContentType.symlink) {
+        return {
+          name: response.data.name,
+          path: response.data.path,
+          size: response.data.size,
+          sha: response.data.sha,
+          type: response.data.type,
+          target: `${response.data.target}`,
+        };
+      } else {
+        throw ErrorFactory.newInternalError('Unexpected response');
+      }
     });
   }
 
diff --git a/src/services/git/__MOCKS__/gitHubServiceMockFolder/getRepoContentServiceResponse.mock.ts b/src/services/git/__MOCKS__/gitHubServiceMockFolder/getRepoContentServiceResponse.mock.ts
index 00797cf54..a91f7cf59 100644
--- a/src/services/git/__MOCKS__/gitHubServiceMockFolder/getRepoContentServiceResponse.mock.ts
+++ b/src/services/git/__MOCKS__/gitHubServiceMockFolder/getRepoContentServiceResponse.mock.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Directory, File } from '../../model';
+import { Directory, File, RepoContentType } from '../../model';
 
 export const getRepoContentServiceResponseDir: Directory = [
   {
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export const getRepoContentServiceResponseDir: Directory = [
     path: 'mockFolder/mockFile.ts',
     size: 0,
     sha: '980a0d5f19a64b4b30a87d4206aade58726b60e3',
-    type: 'file',
+    type: RepoContentType.file,
   },
 ];
 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ export const getRepoContentServiceResponseFile: File = {
   path: 'README',
   size: 13,
   sha: '980a0d5f19a64b4b30a87d4206aade58726b60e3',
-  type: 'file',
+  type: RepoContentType.file,
   content: 'SGVsbG8gV29ybGQhCg==',
   encoding: 'base64',
 };
diff --git a/src/services/git/model.ts b/src/services/git/model.ts
index 2dfeed327..2508fab3f 100644
--- a/src/services/git/model.ts
+++ b/src/services/git/model.ts
@@ -62,17 +62,23 @@ export interface RepoContent {
   path: string;
   sha: string;
   size: number;
-  type: 'dir' | 'file' | 'symlink';
+  type: RepoContentType;
+}
+
+export enum RepoContentType {
+  dir = 'dir',
+  file = 'file',
+  symlink = 'symlink',
 }
 
 export interface File extends RepoContent {
-  type: 'file';
-  content: string;
-  encoding: BufferEncoding;
+  type: RepoContentType.file;
+  content: string | undefined;
+  encoding: BufferEncoding | undefined;
 }
 
 export interface Symlink extends RepoContent {
-  type: 'symlink';
+  type: RepoContentType.symlink;
   target: string;
 }