Authenticate with GitHub using a token

Question

I am trying to authenticate with GitHub using a personal access token. In the help files at github, it states to use the cURL method to authenticate (https://help.github.com

Answer 1

Automation / Git automation with OAuth tokens

$ git clone https://github.com/username/repo.git
  Username: your_token
  Password:

It also works in the git push command.

Reference: https://help.github.com/articles/git-automation-with-oauth-tokens/

Answer 2

Having struggled with this issue for pretty much a full day hard coding in the ORG/REPO section into our build script getting the dreaded 'remote not found' error, eventually found a working solution to be to use the TRAVIS_REPO_SLUG. Switching this in for the hardcoded attributes worked immediately.

git remote set-url origin https://[ORG]:${TOKEN}@github.com/${TRAVIS_REPO_SLUG}

Answer 3

By having struggling so many hours on applying GitHub token finally it works as below:

$ cf_export GITHUB_TOKEN=$(codefresh get context github --decrypt -o yaml | yq -y .spec.data.auth.password)

• code follows Codefresh guidance on cloning a repo using token (freestyle}
• test carried: sed %d%H%M on match word '-123456-whatever'
• push back to the repo (which is private repo)
• triggered by DockerHub webhooks

Following is the complete code:

version: '1.0'
steps:
  get_git_token:
    title: Reading Github token
    image: codefresh/cli
    commands:
      - cf_export GITHUB_TOKEN=$(codefresh get context github --decrypt -o yaml | yq -y .spec.data.auth.password)
  main_clone:
    title: Updating the repo
    image: alpine/git:latest
    commands:
      - git clone https://chetabahana:$GITHUB_TOKEN@github.com/chetabahana/compose.git
      - cd compose && git remote rm origin
      - git config --global user.name "chetabahana"
      - git config --global user.email "chetabahana@gmail.com"
      - git remote add origin https://chetabahana:$GITHUB_TOKEN@github.com/chetabahana/compose.git
      - sed -i "s/-[0-9]\{1,\}-\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)'/-`date +%d%H%M`-whatever'/g" cloudbuild.yaml
      - git status && git add . && git commit -m "fresh commit" && git push -u origin master

Output...

On branch master 
Changes not staged for commit: 
  (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed) 
  (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory) 

modified:   cloudbuild.yaml 

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") 
[master dbab20f] fresh commit 
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 
Enumerating objects: 5, done. 
Counting objects:  20% (1/5) ...  Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done. 
Delta compression using up to 4 threads 
Compressing objects:  33% (1/3) ... Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 283 bytes | 283.00 KiB/s, done. 
Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) 
remote: Resolving deltas:   0% (0/2)  ...   (2/2), completed with 2 local objects. 
To https://github.com/chetabahana/compose.git 
   bbb6d2f..dbab20f  master -> master 
Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. 
Reading environment variable exporting file contents. 
Successfully ran freestyle step: Cloning the repo 

Answer 4

This worked for me using ssh:

Settings → Developer settings → Generate new token.

git remote set-url origin https://[APPLICATION]:[NEW TOKEN]@github.com/[ORGANISATION]/[REPO].git