[ERROR] The deploy step encountered an error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128 ❌

[0xmaayan]

Describe the bug

I have a github workflow that runs the deploy action whenever creating a PR against main branch. I noticed that when a contributor creates the PR (who is not admin/codeowner), the deploy action fails with this error - is that expected?

[endaye]

name: GitHub Pages Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - "dev/en"
env:
  VITE_APP_WALLETCONNECTION_PROJECT_ID: ${{ secrets.VITE_APP_WALLETCONNECTION_PROJECT_ID }}

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [16.x]

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          lfs: true

      - name: Install and bulld
        run: npm i && npm run build

      - name: Deploy
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
        with:
          branch: gh-pages # The branch the action should deploy to.
          folder: build # The folder the action should deploy.

I have the same error on v4.4.1 😢

[remarkablemark]

I am also experiencing this issue for repository https://github.com/remarkablemark/parcel-jsx-dom-example:

Force-pushing changes...
/usr/bin/git push --force ***github.com/remarkablemark/parcel-jsx-dom-example.git github-pages-deploy-action/vloq8f6h0:gh-pages
remote: Permission to remarkablemark/parcel-jsx-dom-example.git denied to github-actions[bot].
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/remarkablemark/parcel-jsx-dom-example.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403
Running post deployment cleanup jobs… 🗑️
/usr/bin/git checkout -B github-pages-deploy-action/vloq8f6h0
Reset branch 'github-pages-deploy-action/vloq8f6h0'
/usr/bin/chmod -R +rw github-pages-deploy-action-temp-deployment-folder
/usr/bin/git worktree remove github-pages-deploy-action-temp-deployment-folder --force
Error: The deploy step encountered an error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128 ❌
Notice: Deployment failed! ❌

Update: I figured out the issue. It seems like GitHub changed new repository default settings and made workflow permissions read-only by default. The fix was to add write permissions to the workflow:

permissions:
  contents: write

[Jebay]

@remarkablemark Thanks, your fix seems to work for me 🙏

[JamesIves]

Glad you got this resolved!