How to use with fine-grained PAT?

[olljanat]

GitHub recently added support for fine-grained personal access tokens and it would be nice to have documented here that how to create one of those for github-release.

[marco-m-pix4d]

Looking at the GitHub documentation, I thought that RW for https://docs.github.com/en/rest/authentication/permissions-required-for-fine-grained-personal-access-tokens?apiVersion=2022-11-28#repository-permissions-for-contents would have been enough.

By trial and error, it turns out that you also need in theory R only, but it seems the UI forces to give RW, also for https://docs.github.com/en/rest/authentication/permissions-required-for-fine-grained-personal-access-tokens?apiVersion=2022-11-28#repository-permissions-for-workflows

In the token summary page, I have

Repository permissions
- Read access to metadata
- Read and Write access to code and workflows

and this allowed me to make a draft release.

EDIT

I now think that the error I was seeing

error: could not find the release corresponding to tag v0.8.0

was more due to eventual consistency on the GitHub side than the need of having also permissions for Workflows ...