Checkout with PAT does not work

[RobertDeRose]

Then using a PAT, that I have confirmed works locally and in other actions, checkout fails to be able to checkout either the workflow's repo or remote repos (private).

This doesn't work

  - name: Checkout Code
      uses: actions/checkout@v4
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.ORG_GIT_TOKEN }}

actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    token: ***
    repository: <our-org>/<our-repo>
    ssh-strict: true
    ssh-user: git
    persist-credentials: true
    clean: true
    sparse-checkout-cone-mode: true
    fetch-depth: 1
    fetch-tags: false
    show-progress: true
    lfs: false
    submodules: false
    set-safe-directory: true
Syncing repository: <our-org>/<our-repo>
Getting Git version info
Temporarily overriding HOME='/home/runner/work/_temp/1cc82281-8c54-4632-b165-99d8270d4ae6' before making global git config changes
Adding repository directory to the temporary git global config as a safe directory
/usr/bin/git config --global --add safe.directory /home/runner/work/<our-repo>/<our-repo>
Deleting the contents of '/home/runner/work/<our-repo>/<our-repo>'
Initializing the repository
  /usr/bin/git init /home/runner/work/<our-repo>/<our-repo>
  hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
  hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
  hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
  hint:
  hint: 	git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
  hint:
  hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
  hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
  hint:
  hint: 	git branch -m <name>
  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/runner/work/<our-repo>/<our-repo>/.git/
  /usr/bin/git remote add origin https://github.com/<our-org>/<our-repo>
Disabling automatic garbage collection
  /usr/bin/git config --local gc.auto 0
Setting up auth
  /usr/bin/git config --local --name-only --get-regexp core\.sshCommand
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach --recursive sh -c "git config --local --name-only --get-regexp 'core\.sshCommand' && git config --local --unset-all 'core.sshCommand' || :"
  /usr/bin/git config --local --name-only --get-regexp http\.https\:\/\/github\.com\/\.extraheader
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach --recursive sh -c "git config --local --name-only --get-regexp 'http\.https\:\/\/github\.com\/\.extraheader' && git config --local --unset-all 'http.https://github.com/.extraheader' || :"
  /usr/bin/git config --local http.https://github.com/.extraheader AUTHORIZATION: basic ***
Fetching the repository
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +09449099e25a268d521465205e31470193b5ca74:refs/remotes/pull/16/merge
  Error: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com/': terminal prompts disabled
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128
  Waiting 14 seconds before trying again
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +09449099e25a268d521465205e31470193b5ca74:refs/remotes/pull/16/merge
  Error: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com/': terminal prompts disabled
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128
  Waiting 11 seconds before trying again
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +09449099e25a268d521465205e31470193b5ca74:refs/remotes/pull/16/merge
  Error: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com/': terminal prompts disabled
  Error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128

Nor does this

   - name: Checkout Client
      uses: actions/checkout@v4
      with:
        repository: <our-org>/<our-other-repo>
        ref: python-sdk
        path: <our-other-repo>
        token: ${{ secrets.ORG_GIT_TOKEN }}

Run actions/checkout@v4
Syncing repository: <our-org>/<our-other-repo>
Getting Git version info
  Working directory is '/home/runner/work/<our-org>/<our-repo>/<our-other-repo>'
  /usr/bin/git version
  git version 2.47.1
Temporarily overriding HOME='/home/runner/work/_temp/9b9ea95e-6597-4ba7-9790-0e25b13f6f9d' before making global git config changes
Adding repository directory to the temporary git global config as a safe directory
/usr/bin/git config --global --add safe.directory /home/runner/work/<our-org>/<our-repo>/<our-other-repo>
Initializing the repository
  /usr/bin/git init /home/runner/work/<our-org>/<our-repo>/<our-other-repo>
  hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
  hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
  hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
  hint:
  hint: 	git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
  hint:
  hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
  hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
  hint:
  hint: 	git branch -m <name>
  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/runner/work/<our-org>/<our-repo>/<our-other-repo>/.git/
  /usr/bin/git remote add origin https://github.com/<our-org>/<our-other-repo>
Disabling automatic garbage collection
  /usr/bin/git config --local gc.auto 0
Setting up auth
  /usr/bin/git config --local --name-only --get-regexp core\.sshCommand
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach --recursive sh -c "git config --local --name-only --get-regexp 'core\.sshCommand' && git config --local --unset-all 'core.sshCommand' || :"
  /usr/bin/git config --local --name-only --get-regexp http\.https\:\/\/github\.com\/\.extraheader
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach --recursive sh -c "git config --local --name-only --get-regexp 'http\.https\:\/\/github\.com\/\.extraheader' && git config --local --unset-all 'http.https://github.com/.extraheader' || :"
  /usr/bin/git config --local http.https://github.com/.extraheader AUTHORIZATION: basic ***
Fetching the repository
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +refs/heads/python-sdk*:refs/remotes/origin/python-sdk* +refs/tags/python-sdk*:refs/tags/python-sdk*
  Error: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128
  Waiting 17 seconds before trying again
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +refs/heads/python-sdk*:refs/remotes/origin/python-sdk* +refs/tags/python-sdk*:refs/tags/python-sdk*
  Error: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128
  Waiting 20 seconds before trying again
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +refs/heads/python-sdk*:refs/remotes/origin/python-sdk* +refs/tags/python-sdk*:refs/tags/python-sdk*
  Error: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled
  Error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128        

[vukasin-nikodijevic]

@RobertDeRose what was the cause for that behavior ?