diff --git a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
index 95d9bc1ac..25d8b8d76 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
@@ -142,10 +142,8 @@ class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
           website: @project.website,
           name: @project.identifier
         }
-        if [true, false].include? private
-          Gitea::Repository::UpdateService.call(@owner, @project&.repository&.identifier, gitea_params)
-          @project.repository.update_attributes({hidden: private, identifier: @project.identifier})
-        end
+        gitea_repo = Gitea::Repository::UpdateService.call(@owner, @project&.repository&.identifier, gitea_params)
+        @project.repository.update_attributes({hidden: gitea_repo["private"], identifier: gitea_repo["name"]})
       end
       SendTemplateMessageJob.perform_later('ProjectSettingChanged', current_user.id, @project&.id, @project.previous_changes.slice(:name, :description, :project_category_id, :project_language_id, :is_public))
     end
diff --git a/app/services/gitea/repository/update_service.rb b/app/services/gitea/repository/update_service.rb
index 0d27922b8..6c4eff1b3 100644
--- a/app/services/gitea/repository/update_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/gitea/repository/update_service.rb
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ class Gitea::Repository::UpdateService < Gitea::ClientService
   end
 
   def call
-    patch(url, data_params)
+    response = patch(url, data_params)
+    render_200_response(response)
   end
 
   private