create_repo with exists_ok=True returns 403 with fine-grained token

[lhoestq]

Describe the bug

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py", line 409, in hf_raise_for_status
    response.raise_for_status()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 1024, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://huggingface.co/api/repos/create

Reproduction

1. create a model repo on HF
2. create a fine-grained token with write access to that repo
3. call create_repo with exist_ok=True using that token

Logs

System info

latest hfh

[Wauplin]

Can't reproduce the issue 😕

1. I have https://huggingface.co/Wauplin/my-cool-mamba
2. Created token with

3. calling create_repo(..., exist_ok=True) works for me:

>>> from huggingface_hub import create_repo, __version__
>>> token="hf_..."
>>> create_repo("Wauplin/my-cool-mamba", exist_ok=True)
RepoUrl('https://huggingface.co/Wauplin/my-cool-mamba', endpoint='https://huggingface.co', repo_type='model', repo_id='Wauplin/my-cool-mamba')
>>> __version__
'0.30.0.dev0'

[lhoestq]

hmm weird, I'll investigate more. On my side it was using trl SFTTrainer with HF_TOKEN environment variable on google colab

[lhoestq]

closing for now, I'll check later - sorry for the inconvenience !