Act: Git checkout requires github token

[ovitente]

Hello

OS: MacOS Catalina
GIT: 2.26.2 (installed through brew and added /usr/local/bin/ to $PATH)

My workflow has this step

    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      name: GIT | Checkout
      with:
        ref: ${{ github.ref }} 

As result with act can't continue due this error that i can't handle, because there are no info in --help about it.

| Syncing repository: <repo-owner>/<myrepo> [STAGE | DEPLOY/CI | api | DEPLOY] ? ::group::Getting Git version info | Working directory is '/github/workspace' [STAGE | DEPLOY/CI | api | DEPLOY] ? ::endgroup:: | Deleting the contents of '/github/workspace' | The repository will be downloaded using the GitHub REST API | To create a local Git repository instead, add Git 2.18 or higher to the PATH | Downloading the archive | Parameter token or opts.auth is required | Waiting 11 seconds before trying again | Downloading the archive | Parameter token or opts.auth is required | Waiting 17 seconds before trying again Error: context canceled

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Questions:

• Why act is trying to get reach into remote private repo instead of using local fresh pulled copy?
• What should i put into opts.auth file and where to put it to get act working?

[gimmyxd]

What should i put into opts.auth file and where to put it to get act working?

@ovitente i got past a similar issue by using GITHUB_TOKEN=my_token act command

[ovitente]

@gimmyxd Unfortunately I am receiving the same error.
GITHUB_TOKEN=my_token act
or

export GITHUB_TOKEN=my_token
act

Not working :(

[Magnum97]

I found that if one goes to Settings and Personal Access Tokens, and generate a new token. Make sure to remove all access except user and use this key in place of ${ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN ) it solved my issue with this exact error.

Edit:
Felt negligent not to mention that you should not commit this to your repository. I created a local branch to use it in for testing.

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[1oglop1]

Thanks all above for the workaround, I just hit the same issue.

I could clone my own repo but when I tried to clone another public repo I've got an error. It may be have to do something with this: https://github.com/actions/checkout#checkout-multiple-repos-private
even though the bolt-python repo is public.

    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        path: main
    - name: Checkout bolt-python repo
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        repository: slackapi/bolt-python
        path: bolt-python

It would be good to mention this in README of act project or use GitHub token as a requirement by default.

[ovitente]

Working solution for token on current version, - 0.2.16

cd your_local_repo_directory
export GITHUB_TOKEN=YOUR_TOKEN
act -w .github/workflow/dev.yaml