Pushes performed by [email protected] despite scoped token

[pauleve]

Related to issue #48, I specified a personal access token as GITHUB_TOKEN environment for the action. However, the pushes are still marked as being done by [email protected]..
Then, I cannot find a way to trigger other actions when an update is done to the PR this action, neither pull_request/synchronize, nor push/branches seem to work..
Any idea how to make working the push using the personal access token?

Here is the excerpt of configuration I use:

    - name: Create Pull Request
      uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v1
      env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
      with:
        commit-message: "[auto] update tools"
        title: Automated update of tools
        body: This is an auto-generated PR with tool updates.
        labels: pkg-update, autodocker
        assignees: pauleve
        branch: auto/tool-updates
        branch-suffix: none

(the full action is here: https://github.com/colomoto/colomoto-docker/blob/master/.github/workflows/auto-update.yml)

Here is an example of PR which has been updated, but with pushes authored by [email protected]:
colomoto/colomoto-docker#41

[peter-evans]

I think this behaviour is due to the recent v2 release of actions/checkout. I notice you are following the master branch of checkout with actions/checkout@master, so you are now using v2.

I haven't completely figured out how these changes affect this action yet. Not sure if this will solve your issue, but what you could try is setting the PAT on the checkout, too.

    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
        ref: master

[pauleve]

That has solved the issue, thank you very much!

[peter-evans]

@pauleve Just to let you know that recent versions of the action have fixed this problem and it shouldn't be necessary to checkout using the PAT. The action will now correctly use the PAT passed to it to push.

    - uses: actions/checkout@v2

    # Make changes to pull request here

    - name: Create Pull Request
      uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v2
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}