Format of GH_PAT value

[blairboy362]

Hi folks.

I just want to clarify the format of the GH_PAT input value. Should it include the username? So it would be username:PAT?

I ask because I recently saw an issue where a workflow was throwing this error:

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

Which makes sense as git, when performing a clone, is attempting to prompt for a password. Including the username in the GH_PAT variable switched to a different error, an authentication failure, which I imagine is because the PAT is expired or has otherwise been revoked (something I need to look into anyway, but that's for another day). I wanted to raise this before I change our workflow configurations in case I'm missing something obvious somewhere.

Thanks.

[BetaHuhn]

The GH_PAT should be set to the value you get from GitHub after generating a personal access token in their UI. No need to prepend it with your username.