Doesn't work for private Github repos

[Daniel15]

I get this error when I try to import into a private repo:

λ python3 migrate.py -bu Daniel15 Daniel15/example Daniel15/example Daniel15
Please enter your GitHub password.
Note: If your GitHub account has authentication enabled, you must use a personal access token from https://github.com/settings/tokens in place of a password for this script.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "migrate.py", line 877, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(options))
  File "migrate.py", line 198, in main
    raise RuntimeError("Could not find a GitHub repo at: " + gh_repo_url)
RuntimeError: Could not find a GitHub repo at: https://api.github.com/repos/Daniel15/example

It works fine for public repos, so I just temporarily made my repo public in order to import the issues.

Now that Github allows everyone to have private repos (even free users), this should be easy to replicate.

[Daniel15]

Actually ignore me, I think this was just me not configuring the permissions properly. It worked the second time I tried.

[jeffwidman]

Glad you figured it out and thanks for letting me know.

[Blaisorblade]

Actually ignore me, I think this was just me not configuring the permissions properly. It worked the second time I tried.

Well, this tool could document what permissions are needed. write:discussion and repo:status are not enough. It worked for me with repo, write:discussion. I'm PRing a tentative documentation fix.

Also, the error-reporting code gives a misleading message (altho it doesn't have extra info).

   if gh_repo_status == 401:
        raise RuntimeError("Failed to login to GitHub.")
    elif gh_repo_status == 403:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "GitHub login succeeded, but user '{}' either doesn't have "
            "permission to access the repo at: {}\n"
            "or is over their GitHub API rate limit.\n"
            "You can read more about GitHub's API rate limiting policies here: "
            "https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"
            .format(options.github_username, gh_repo_url)
        )
    elif gh_repo_status == 404:
        raise RuntimeError("Could not find a GitHub repo at: " + gh_repo_url)

EDIT: forgot an important thing: thanks for this very useful tool!