tools: make env variables consistent in cron jobs

[aduh95]

• Pass -R/--repo explicitly instead of an implicit use of GH_REPO or let the tool figure out based on the local repo
• Prefer GH_TOKEN, since that's what gh checks first according to https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_help_environment
• Prefer github.token over secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN to help avoid confusing it with secrets.GH_USER_TOKEN=
• Document secrets used in auto-start-ci.yml, remove references to secrets.GH_USER_TOKEN (add permissions meeting the ones we use for CQ filtering PRs)
• Do not pass owner and repository as argv for commit-queue.sh, it already expects to find e.g. GITHUB_SERVER_URL in the env, it's simpler for it to also expect GITHUB_REPOSITORY to be defined.
• Move git config call to the workflow so a human running the script locally doesn't accidentally impersonate the bot.

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[panva]

There's a permissions smoking gun in there somewhere. Sorry I don't have the time to look closely at the moment.

[aduh95]

There's a permissions smoking gun in there somewhere. Sorry I don't have the time to look closely at the moment.

I'm not touching the permissions though

[panva]

I'm not touching the permissions though

But there is a user change in auto-start-ci.yml, isn't there?

[panva]

Is use of ?: intentional over :??

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Title      tools: make env variables consistent in cron jobs (#65168)
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[main 6b25dfdc6b] tools: make env variables consistent in cron jobs
 Author: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
 Date: Sun Aug 9 20:13:26 2026 +0200
 4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
[main 977da716bc] fixup! tools: make env variables consistent in cron jobs
 Author: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
 Date: Mon Aug 10 23:15:32 2026 +0200
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)
[main 76d31e5981] squash! use same permissions as CQ
 Author: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
 Date: Mon Aug 10 21:18:11 2026 +0200
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
[main d766fff13e] squash! Apply suggestion from @panva
 Author: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
 Date: Mon Aug 10 23:15:58 2026 +0200
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
[main 162af24468] squash! not early stage anymore
 Author: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
 Date: Thu Aug 20 15:19:14 2026 +0200
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
[main a0b2e90ff1] squash! not early stages anymore
 Author: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
 Date: Thu Aug 20 15:19:49 2026 +0200
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
   ✔  Patches applied
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$ git rebase origin/main --no-keep-empty -i -x "git node land --amend" --autosquash

$ git node land --continue

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