Error pushing to remote repository

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I’m seeing an issue using the Netlify deploy button with the following URL: Netlify App.

The deploys are succeeding, but at the end of the deploy process pushing the site to Github is failing with “Error pushing to remote repository”.

I was wondering if anyone has seen a similar error? I’m not sure how to investigate further.

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Hi @crosscompile, the “Deploy to Netlify” button works by creating the site under your Netlify account, deploying the git repo you pass in, then creating a new repo under your github account and pushing the contents of that old repo to your new one. I’ve never seen a failure like you described, but the only thing I can think of is that you aren’t logged in to your github account or that you don’t have permissions to create a repo and push to it. Can you confirm that you are logged in to your github account when you click that link?

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In case anyone else comes across this thread, the error from Github ended up being:

refusing to allow an integration to create or update .github/main.workflow

My repo uses Github actions and has a main.workflow file which Github currently prevents apps from creating/modifying. Other related info:

Github Desktop issue: Can't push from GitHub desktop with Actions · Issue #7079 · desktop/desktop · GitHub
Github engineer comment: https://twitter.com/p_reynolds/status/1089880487659737088

As a workaround I might try just removing the main.workflow file as part of the Netlify build script.

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Thank you sooo much for sharing this @crosscompile, I never would have guessed that would be an issue.