Pushing to repo fails... possibly related to publishing to GPR?

[airtonix]

Heya Guys, I have this little library within which I'm trying to implement changesets.

Initially I wanted to just process changesets, bump versions and publish new npm package when master changes, although now I realise that due to #77 it could be unfeasible?

In any case, I'm now just trying to get it working in the first place, so it goes through the pull request flow.

Variation on my situation is that my npm repo is the github package repository and I'm using pnpm and asdf (if that matters).

Error I'm getting when i merge the PR is

Run changesets/action@master
setting git user
/usr/bin/git config --global user.name "github-actions[bot]"
/usr/bin/git config --global user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
setting GitHub credentials
/usr/bin/git checkout changeset-release/master
error: pathspec 'changeset-release/master' did not match any file(s) known to git
/usr/bin/git checkout -b changeset-release/master
Switched to a new branch 'changeset-release/master'
/usr/bin/git reset --hard a161afe0ea081204ad93acab4603305f476a04d4
HEAD is now at a161afe Implement Changesets Release Flow (#4)
/home/runner/.asdf/shims/node /home/runner/work/lootr/lootr/node_modules/.pnpm/@changesets+cli@2.16.0/node_modules/@changesets/cli/bin.js version
🦋  All files have been updated and committed. You're ready to publish!
/usr/bin/git status --porcelain
/usr/bin/git push origin HEAD:changeset-release/master --force
remote: Permission to airtonix/lootr.git denied to github-actions[bot].
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/airtonix/lootr/': The requested URL returned error: 403
Error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128
    at a._setResult (/home/runner/work/_actions/changesets/action/master/dist/index.js:86:6638)
    at a.CheckComplete (/home/runner/work/_actions/changesets/action/master/dist/index.js:86:6068)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/_actions/changesets/action/master/dist/index.js:86:5102)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:210:5)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:283:5)
Error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128

You can see it here : https://github.com/airtonix/lootr/runs/3391442726?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:26

my workflow file is here: https://github.com/airtonix/lootr/blob/8e004098ce7c8834769f0680db88f9f7f57c19d8/.github/workflows/release.yml

something to note, is that previous to bring in changesets, my pnpm publishing required the use of setting a NODE_AUTH_TOKEN due to actions/setup-node@v2 creating a .npmrc for me.

[Andarist]

It looks like the action was not able to push out to the changeset-release/master branch and this is what caused the problem. I'm not sure why this would happen though - maybe you have some branch protection rules that prevent force-pushing?

[airtonix]

coming back to this again... forgot i made this ticket and am again experiencing this issue.

No idea what that branch (changeset-release/master) is ... i didn't create it, didn't ask for it. no idea what it is.

Initially when I saw that I thought it was mistakenly trying to push back to https://github.com/changesets/action master branch?

[Andarist]

Since you have configured Changesets action to be run on your master branch it creates a dedicated "version branch" for it (changeset-release/master in this case) and tries to push to it so it could create a PR to your master branch. When such PR gets merged into your master branch then the actual release "kicks in" and packages are published to the registry.

As to the usage without a pull request workflow - I'm unsure how to handle this right now because the changeset files have to be removed somehow from your repository and currently they are usually removed within that versioning PR. It's an interesting use case and I might look into it sometime in the future but I can't promise that it will be done any time soon. If you have any idea on how this could work - let me know, I'll try to consider it.

[zthxxx]

Hey @airtonix and @Andarist , I found out the reason with details and wrote in https://github.com/changesets/action/issues/132

[hcg1023]

I have the same problem, I ran into the same problem, and instead of using npm, I simply used the first example of the README.md Without Publishing

[hcg1023]

I solved the problem. Maybe you can try my method

 - name: Checkout Repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          persist-credentials: false

[hcg1023]

179 Maybe you need confirm this

[maoxiaoke]

@hcg1023 this solved my problem. Workflows need more permissions.

[NullVoxPopuli]

I just ran in to this and had to additionally set these permissions:

at this URL: https://github.com/<the-repo>/settings/actions

[andrewbranch]

☝️ the defaults for new repos and orgs definitely cause this failure. This should be in the docs.

[ryangoree]

If you don't want to give all actions read/write by default: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idpermissions

...

jobs:
  release:
    name: Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions: write-all
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Repo
      # ...