Please consider retries for the Octokit client

[awendt]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I just ran into a problem where a call to the Github API unexpectedly returned a 404 error. This failed our workflow. The error was intermittent and wasn't reproducible when I re-ran the job.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like any API calls made by the github client to be retried, preferably using the retry plugin

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've considered adding the retry logic to our workflow but this defeats the purpose of having a pre-authenticated API client.

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[joshmgross]

Since not all consumers may want this behavior, we could support it behind an optional input

  enable-retries:
    description: Whether to use the retry plugin to retry GitHub requests
    default: false

[andris-zalitis]

@joshmgross we're hitting rate-limiting in our GitHub action. Would definitely use retry plugin if it was available.

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