Retry when "Secondary rate limit" error occurs in GitHub API #183
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fixes #170
Problem to be solved
When using
secret.GITHUB_TOKEN
as a token to call GitHub API, “Secondary rate limit” error occurred frequently and the process stopped there.Solution to the problem
If a “Secondary rate limit” error occurs, wait for a certain period of time and retry according to the response header.
Use go-github-ratelimit for retry mechanism.
Test repository
I ran tagpr 10 times with the following repositories and the process was completed successfully without rate limit error.
https://github.com/snaka/tagpr-err-reproduce-with-debug/actions/runs/10957866785
Before the fix, the error occurred frequently (3 times in 12 tries) as follows
https://github.com/snaka/tagpr-err-reproduce/actions/runs/10956692059/job/30423254520