Describe the need

I'd like to be able to instantiate the GitHub provider twice. One instance uses app auth. The other instance uses personal access token (PAT) auth.

The code that I'd like to write looks like this:

provider "github" { # Uses GITHUB_APP_... env vars
  app_auth {}
}

provider "github" {  # Uses GITHUB_TOKEN env var
  alias = "pat"
}

The first provider block errors because, although I'm not explicitly setting the token argument, it is set implicitly due to the existence of the env var GITHUB_TOKEN.

Desired behavior:

• app_auth {} block set => Provider uses the GITHUB_APP_... env vars (currently the case*), ignores GITHUB_TOKEN env var (new)
• app_auth {} block not set => Provider uses the GITHUB_TOKEN env var (currently the case*), ignores GITHUB_APP_... env vars (currently the case*)

* I manually confirmed these statements about current behavior. In particular, the GITHUB_APP_... env vars are really ignored unless the app_auth {} block is set.

SDK Version

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API Version

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Relevant log output

│ Error: "app_auth": conflicts with token
│ 
│   with provider["registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/github"],
│   on main.tf line 1, in provider "github":
│    1: provider "github" {
│

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