Deploying to GitHub fails with git error about github-pages-deploy-action HOT 7 CLOSED

@JamesIves you were right about not having the correct permissions. In fact, I did two separate mistakes:

1. I (probably) pasted the wrong access token value into the secret variable, most likely including extra spaces/tabs or being incomplete. Once I've got it right, the user (owning the token) has been correctly identified.

2. The user (a CI/CD dedicated user, owning the aforementioned token) was part of the team but had no write access. Once I explicitly granted her write access to the repo, the first four repo permissions were enough for the action to succeed.

While this issue is definitely invalid, I believe that insufficient user permissions should somehow be indicated by the action's script. Maybe an explicit, separate test command to push something to the repo could help identifying the lack of privileges.

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Is this a private or public repo, and is the dev branch published? It sounds to me like it can't find the branch for whatever reason.

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It's a public repo and yes, the dev branch is there. This is the repo and this is the workflow file.

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Which permissions did you get the access token? I'm wondering if the permissions are not sufficient which is why it's throwing the error as it attempts to commit: https://github.com/JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action/blob/master/entrypoint.sh#L86-L90

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Only these:

It didn't seem like anything else would be required for pushing to the repo. Would it?

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My test repo has these permissions - not sure if that will fix it but it's worth giving it a shot.

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I like the idea of that! I'll see what I can come up with.

Thanks for the report!

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