GIthub action, authentication to git failed

Question

I have a GitHub action with these steps:

    - name: Install dependencies
      run: npm install
    - name: Build
      run: npm run build
    - name: Git config
      run: |
        git config user.email "[email protected]"
        git config user.name "my_username"
    - name: Deploy
      run: npm run deploy
      env:
        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

where the npm deploy script is

gh-pages -b master -d build

so I'm basically pushing the build from the branch develop to master. The deploy script fails because it is not authenticating to git correctly. This is the error:

Run npm run deploy

> [email protected] deploy /home/runner/work/robertobatts.github.io/robertobatts.github.io
> gh-pages -b master -d build

fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] deploy: `gh-pages -b master -d build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1

The secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN should be created automatically by GitHub since I have set a workflow, so what am I doing wrong?

Karl Bielefeldt · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-16 22:48:08Z

1

I don't know precisely for your particular action, but usually, if the token is passed as an environment variable, it's in all-caps, like:

env:
  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Or if passed in as a parameter, using with instead of env:

with:
  github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

answered Jun 16, 2020 at 22:48

Karl Bielefeldt

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