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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, github, github-actions

Research direction

Start with the linked GitHub Actions run and the push failure involving .github/workflows/chatops.yml. Check how the Personal Access Token is configured and whether its permissions include the workflow scope. Done means the ChatOps push can update the workflow without the remote rejecting it.

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Description

Pushing pull request branch to 'fork/update/template-workflows'
/usr/bin/git push --force-with-lease fork HEAD:refs/heads/update/template-workflows
To https://github.com/BSData-bot/star-wars-armada
! [remote rejected] HEAD -> update/template-workflows (refusing to allow a Personal Access Token to create or update workflow .github/workflows/chatops.yml without workflow scope)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/BSData-bot/star-wars-armada'
Error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 1

image

https://github.com/BSData/chatops/runs/1486728417?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:82

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