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Improve docs for checking out a private repo #482

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@nholden nholden commented Apr 23, 2021

I tried using actions/checkout to checkout a private repo using the README, and I bumped into two issues:

  1. I thought that secrets.GitHub_PAT was something that I got for free. It turns out that the user must create this secret themselves.
  2. User-created secrets cannot start with GitHub_.

This change updates the README to clarify both of those points.

I tried using `actions/checkout` to checkout a private repo using the README, and I bumped into two issues:

1. I thought that `secrets.GitHub_PAT` was something that I got for free. It turns out that the user must create this secret themselves.
2. User-created secrets [cannot start with `GitHub_`](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/encrypted-secrets).

This change updates the README to clarify both of those points.
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nholden commented Mar 8, 2023

Fixed by #623

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