docs: Include warning when configuring token to install private packages #528
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The distinction between
secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN
andsecrets.NPM_TOKEN
cost myself and a colleague numerous hours when we were trying to fix a GitHub Actions workflow which needed to install a private package from a different repository from our GitHub organisation.Given the issue dedicated to this point is closed, we should include a warning here to make it more clear why
secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN
will not work when passed tonpm ci
, in the presence of private packages from other GitHub Package repositories.Description:
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