[BUG]: Creating deployments fail with "Request body length does not match content-length header" on renamed repos

[NiklasMerz]

What happened?

I updated my very old octokit and nodejs version to the most recent ones and creating deployments now fails.

The repo got renamed and the action was using the old name.

Some code:

let options = {
  auto_merge: false,
  owner: 'myorga',
  repo: 'myproject',
  ref: 'develop',
  environment: 'testing'
}

async function createDeployment(options) {
    options.task = 'deploy';
    options.required_contexts = [];
    let result = await octokit.rest.repos.createDeployment(options)
    const id = result.data.id;
    console.log(id);
    fs.writeFileSync(process.env.HOME + '/deployment_action', id);
    
    console.log(result.status == 201 ? 'Done': 'Error');
    if(result.status != 201) {
        console.error(result);
        process.exit(1);
    }
}

Versions

octokit-rest.js/20.0.2
octokit-core.js/5.1.0
Node.js/18.19.0 (linux; x64)',

Relevant log output

/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:156
    throw new import_request_error.RequestError(message, 500, {
          ^

RequestError [HttpError]: Request body length does not match content-length header
    at /node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:156:11
    at async createDeployment (/usr/bin/deployment.js:13:18) {
  status: 500,
  request: {
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/pragmaticindustries/ukonn-wizard/deployments',
    headers: {
      accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
      'user-agent': 'octokit-rest.js/20.0.2 octokit-core.js/5.1.0 Node.js/18.19.0 (linux; x64)',
      authorization: 'token [REDACTED]',
      'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
    },
    body: '{"auto_merge":false,"ref":"develop","environment":"testing","task":"deploy","required_contexts":[]}',
    request: { hook: [Function: bound bound register] }
  }
}

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[NiklasMerz]

After finding this issue semantic-release/github#746 I realized we renamed the repo and the workflow used the old name. Strange error but this fixes it.

[wolfy1339]

Maybe this warrants a mention in the docs? Or maybe there is a fix that we can do on our side to avoid the error