Home-manager-template Github rate limit

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With the release of 20.09, I decided to run update-dependencies.sh in home-manager-template. It failed, apparently because of a Google rate limit. Any suggestions what to do. I get something like the message below ever since I started trying to update.

Updating all packages
  Package: nixos-unstable
  Package: nixos
  FATAL: Cannot get latest revision for branch 'nixos-20.09' (nixos/nixpkgs-channels)
  The request failed: Response {responseStatus = Status {statusCode = 422, statusMessage = "Unprocessable Entity"}, responseVersion = HTTP/1.1, responseHeaders = [("server","GitHub.com"),("date","Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:11:53 GMT"),("content-type","application/json; charset=utf-8"),("content-length","130"),("status","422 Unprocessable Entity"),("x-github-media-type","github.v3; param=sha"),("access-control-expose-headers","ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, Deprecation, Sunset"),("access-control-allow-origin","*"),("strict-transport-security","max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload"),("x-frame-options","deny"),("x-content-type-options","nosniff"),("x-xss-protection","1; mode=block"),("referrer-policy","origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin"),("content-security-policy","default-src 'none'"),("vary","Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With"),("X-Ratelimit-Limit","60"),("X-Ratelimit-Remaining","53"),("X-Ratelimit-Reset","1603987596"),("X-Ratelimit-Used","7"),("X-GitHub-Request-Id","XXXX:XXXX:XXXXXX:XXXXXXX:XXXXXXXX")], responseBody = "{\"message\":\"No commit found for SHA: nixos-20.09\",\"documentation_url\":\"https://docs.github.com/rest/reference/repos#get-a-commit\"}", responseCookieJar = CJ {expose = []}, responseClose' = ResponseClose}
  NOTE: You may want to retry with an authentication token:

      GITHUB_TOKEN=... niv <cmd>

  For more information on rate-limiting, see

      https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting

  Package: niv
  Package: home-manager
  FATAL: One or more packages failed to update:
  nixos: ExitFailure 1
ERROR: ExitFailure 1
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There is no nixos-20.09 branch on the nixpkgs-channels repo. In general that repo is deprecated and should not be used any more, instead you should use the nixpkgs channel directly.

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