Checking out private repository

[stell]

I don't get this to work. I have a private repo I need to checkout and use in another private repo of mine.
So inside the workflow I'm doing this:

  - name: Checkout small private repo
    uses: actions/checkout@v2.3.4
    with:
      repository: name/smallprivaterepo         
      path: build/

Also added token: ${{ secrets.REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN }} but getting Retrieving the default branch name. Bad credentials.

What is going wrong?

[dhamo-pk]

You need to add token to checkout the private repo with correct permissions.

How to create PAT with checkout permissions to checkout a private repository ?
Create a personal access token (PAT) with the repo scope. You can do this by going to your GitHub profile settings, selecting "Developer settings", then "Personal access tokens", and clicking "Generate new token". Make sure to copy the token value as it will not be displayed again.

- name: Checkout private repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          repository: username/private-repo-name
          ref: main
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}

[arnodunstatter]

But that gives access to all personal private repositories via that token. I'm trying to use the fine-grained tokens to avoid this pitfall, but despite having given it read and write access to Actions and Workflows, and giving it read-only access to Metadata, I continue to get The process 'C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe' failed with exit code 128 and remote: Write access to repository not granted.