Publishing to a private GitHub repo: fine-grained vs classic PAT

[pavelanni]

It's not a question; I just wanted to share my experience, hoping it might help somebody. After several trial-and-error, I discovered that the new fine-grained personal access token didn't work for me, while the classic PAT worked just fine. In my case, I use my company's private repo, but the fine-grained PAT gives me access only to my repos, and that was the reason I couldn't access it, as far as I understand.

This is the error I got:

error=scm releases: failed to publish artifacts: could not release: POST https://api.github.com/repos/<company>/<project>/releases: 404 Not Found []

The bottom line is to use Classic PAT with GoReleaser on GitHub.