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@@ -55,16 +55,6 @@ This action requires a personal access token (PAT) with appropriate permissions
 - Click on the "Add secret" button to save the secret.
 **Note that, PAT grants significant access to your GitHub account, so treat them like passwords and keep them secure.**
 
-### Using actions/checkout
-
-If your pre-existing yml file (that your including this action to) is already using checkout, please use it with `persist-credentials` and set the value to `false`
-
-```YML
-- name: checkout code
-   uses: actions/checkout@v3
-   with:
-       persist-credentials: false
-```
 ## Inputs
 
 `target-branch` (optional): The branch in which you want to merge the pull request. Defaults to 'alpha'.