git refusing to allow a Personal Access Token

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Posted at 2022-03-03 by HughB

Hi there. I can no longer push to my fork of BangleApps.
This has been working fine for 2 years.
I have tried regenerating my access token.

The problem seems to be with .github/workflows/nodejs.yml

$ git push origin master
Username for 'https://github.com': hughbarney
Password for 'https://hughbarney@github.com': 
Enumerating objects: 38, done.
Counting objects: 100% (31/31), done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (17/17), done.
Writing objects: 100% (17/17), 2.73 KiB | 400.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 17 (delta 13), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (13/13), completed with 9 local objects.
To https://github.com/hughbarney/BangleApps.git
 ! [remote rejected]   master -> master (refusing to allow a Personal Access Token to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/nodejs.yml` without `workflow` scope)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/hughbarney/BangleApps.git'
$ pwd

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2022-03-03 by HughB

Ok - problem solved. I went onto github and did a fetch/merge on my github repo. This allowed me to push again to it from my local repo. No idea why this happenned.