Usage with external github action

[brunolemos]

I'm trying to use Deploy Key with gh-action-bump-version.

Do you know if secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN is automatically set by the github checkout action when using ssh-key?
I'm still facing the branch protected rule error.

More context: phips28/gh-action-bump-version#260

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    with:
      ref: refs/heads/dev
      ssh-key: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_KEY }} # Private ssh key
      persist-credentials: true # <<-- Does this expose a token to GITHUB_TOKEN?
  - id: bump-package-version
    uses: 'phips28/gh-action-bump-version@master'
    with:
      commit-message: 'CI: bumps version to {{version}} [skip ci]'
      default: 'minor'
    env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # Tried with or without this line; how to use the ssh auth?
      PACKAGEJSON_DIR: packages/editor

[sbellone]

It's unrelated to the GITHUB_TOKEN, what's needed is to use git with the Deploy key.
persist-credentials (which is true by default) indeed configures git with the passed ssh-key (see here), but the action you use tries to push using HTTPS (see here), so the key is not used.