Fatal authentication error during build

[ianwieds]

Describe the bug

GitHub action step fails and logs this error:
fatal: could not read Password for 'https://***@github.com': No such device or address

Reproduce
I am using this configuration for the action in my workflow.yml:

name: Build & Jekyll

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - name: Setup ruby
        uses: actions/setup-ruby@v1
        with:
          ruby-version: '2.6'
          architecture: 'x64'
      - name: Setup node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 10
      - run: npm install
      - name: Jekyll build
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@master
        env:
          ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GH_AUTH_TOKEN}}
          BRANCH: master
          FOLDER: "."
          CNAME: template.itwcreativeworks.com

And I have double checked that my GitHub access token is stored as a secret named GH_AUTH_TOKEN.

Expected behavior

Should build without an error

[JamesIves]

Outside of the workflow can you interface with git using the access token? Just to verify this isn't a permission issue can you try running a command with it using the following formatting.

https://${ACCESS_TOKEN}@github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}.git

Let me know if that works or not. I'm guessing there's likely some changes that need to be made to make this action work with the new CICD workflow.

[ianwieds]

I think the original issue was in fact with the permissions on the token, thanks for pointing me in the right direction with that. I re-added a token with more permissions but now I'm getting a different error:

git is already the newest version (1:2.11.0-3+deb9u4).
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /github/workspace/.git/
Switched to a new branch 'master'
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.
Running build scripts... 
Deploying to GitHub...
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
##[error]Docker run failed with exit code 1

Getting this error even when I'm definitely committing new files. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[JamesIves]

Yeah, this is likely something to do with the CICD yml workflows being slightly different. I can see about pushing up a fix for this soon.

[ianwieds]

I don't know if that's for sure the issue, however. I just tried making a brand new repo and using the example code from the README to create a new main.workflow file with the old Actions syntax and I'm still getting the same error. I must be doing something wrong? Is there an example repo I can clone and try this with to rule out any mistakes on my part?

[JamesIves]

i've been using it in a personal repo of mine to test; https://github.com/JamesIves/reddit-viewer/blob/master/.github/main.workflow

[JamesIves]

Taking another look at this, it looks like you've got the deploy branch configured to master and you're deploying . which will end up being the root directory, which means the error makes sense as you're technically trying to deploy everything that's already in the master branch to the master branch.

Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

If you're trying to push your changes to the gh-pages branch you'll need to change the BRANCH variable to gh-pages. Using the workflow example I provided in my last comment I'm deploying the build folder (which gets generated from the build script) to the gh-pages branch once it's built.

Let me know if that helps! 👍

Additionally I've also pushed up a new version of the README using the CICD format if you'd like to use that instead. GitHub will be deprecating the HCL format in September so it's probably better to make the switch sooner rather than later.