Git - Add the workflow scope to your Personal Access Token

If you use a personal access token to authenticate to github, and you should be using one, you may have encountered the below error when trying to push updates to a remote repository.

(refusing to allow a Personal Access Token to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/build_main.yaml` without `workflow` scope)

Frustrating right! Well, fortunately this is easy to fix by following the steps below.

Login to GitHub
Go to Settings and choose Developer Settings
Choose Personal Access Tokens
Click the link on the personal access token used for your project
Check the box beside workflow and click Update Token
Click Generate new token and create a save the new token
Change the token in your project to the new one with the workflow scope Note that you may not need to do steps 6 and 7, it’s best to try your push again after updating to confirm.

After updating or generating a new token the workflow scope will be allowed and you can continue on your way.

Git - Add the workflow scope to your Personal Access Token

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