This means that the velo app is not installed. I’m not sure why it skipped that step - i haven’t seen this behavior before.
Without the velo app step, the connection will not be created so the repo that you created manually can’t be connected.
Unfortunately if you test again and this continues to happen you will want to open a bug ticket with customer care
There’s a link in this post to start that process Wix Studio - How to report a bug