# Troubleshooting ## semantic-release ### semantic-release breaks when branch protection is applied Applying branch protection to the `main` or `master` branch can break semantic-release in our auto-release GitHub workflows by preventing the library from pushing changes to the protected branch. This can be fixed by following these instructions: Two things I needed to change to make treetracker-admin-client work were: 1. Pass `persist-credentials: false` to `actions/checkout@v2` as a `with:` value 2. Create a personal access token and assign it to a repo secret named `GH_TOKEN` that is passed to the semantic-release env.