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GITHUB_TOKEN is invalidated after time window causing action to fail

See original GitHub issue

On Windows runners this fails with:

Run softprops/action-gh-release@v1
   with:
    files: livesplit-core-*.*
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ***
⚠️ Unexpected error fetching GitHub release for tag refs/tags/v-testing: HttpError: Bad credentials
##[error]Bad credentials
##[error]Node run failed with exit code 1

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:16 (9 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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CryZecommented, Sep 20, 2019

I didn’t have much time to test it yet. But from the few runs I’ve done since then, I didn’t have any network errors yet. So this may indeed be resolved 😃

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CryZecommented, Sep 13, 2019

No, only on Windows. I’ve reordered the Windows runners to run earlier now, and so far it’s working.

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