desktop: Main.workflow causes an error when publishing a new branch

Description

I recently added a Github action to my repository, and attempted to retrieve it using the desktop client, and ended up with the following error:

Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To https://github.com/JamesIves/reddit-viewer.git
 ! [remote rejected] doc-test -> doc-test (refusing to allow an integration to create main.workflow)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/JamesIves/reddit-viewer.git'

You can see the workflow here:

I attempted to remove main.workflow, but after committing it I get a similar error when pushing to master.

Enumerating objects: 3, done.
Counting objects:  33% (1/3)   
Counting objects:  66% (2/3)   
Counting objects: 100% (3/3)   
Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects:  50% (1/2)   
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2)   
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects:  50% (1/2)   
Writing objects: 100% (2/2)   
Writing objects: 100% (2/2), 230 bytes | 230.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 2 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas:   0% (0/1)           
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1)           
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local object.        
To https://github.com/JamesIves/reddit-viewer.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (refusing to allow an integration to delete main.workflow)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/JamesIves/reddit-viewer.git'

Version

GitHub Desktop: 1.5.1

Operating system: Mac OSX Mojave 10.14.1

Steps to Reproduce

Expected Behavior

I expect it to publish the branch with no errors.

Actual Behavior

It errors.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 7
Comments: 15 (4 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

this issue is still happening and is very annoying

saxinte on Feb 12, 2019

For other Googler who fall here. It work with HTTPS if you use an access token

nicolas-marcq on Oct 16, 2019

What you can do also is switch to a git URL over an HTTP url for git. It works

ys on Mar 16, 2019

Was this closed because there was a solution found? I am having the same issue.

cclauss on Feb 11, 2019

The push works fine from the git CLI, so I think it’s trying to stop OAuth apps from deleting workflows.

j-f1 on Jan 3, 2019

Hi there,

Closed a long time but still the most updated thread about this. Is there any solution on this to let contributors to fork and push their work as before - on HTTPs without token and other magic? Currently, this is a dealbreaker for us now - which is very unpleasant because I have waited for GitHub actions for a long time.

molnard on Nov 20, 2019

This isn’t just for deleting main.workflow, it also happens when it’s being modified. Same problem with Git Kraken. The only solution I found is to use the git command line or edit/delete the file on github.com. Adding /.github/main.workflow to .gitignore helps but there’s still a problem when merging a branch to another branch with changes to the workflow file. Would love to see a proper solution though.

dkrutsko on Jan 9, 2019

@JamesIves thanks for the report, but I’m not sure there’s anything that GitHub Desktop can do with this error:

To https://github.com/JamesIves/reddit-viewer.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (refusing to allow an integration to delete main.workflow)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/JamesIves/reddit-viewer.git'

The GitHub remote isn’t letting you push a branch that removes main.workflow, for reasons that are unclear to me. I’d recommend contacting Support to clarify how you should remove a workflow from a repository, as the documentation for Actions doesn’t have any guidance on this.

shiftkey on Jan 2, 2019

Just to clarify… everyone seems to blame the fact that the main.workflow file is being edited. But that isn’t the case for me. That file was untouched.

euroclydon37 on Mar 14, 2019

Thanks @j-f1 for the extra context!

shiftkey on Jan 3, 2019