Unable to authenticate with private Github repo - fails build every time

[dynajoe]

The Github client is prompting for username when trying to clone private repo. It fails with:

[bunch of stuff show in image below]
Cloning into '/var/myorg/myrepo'...
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address

I have provided client access key and authorized the application to have access to private repos through OAuth.

Jenkins ver. 1.595

May be related to #102

[dynajoe]

I got this to work by creating a docker image that had a credential stored on the disk at ~/.git-credential. I also set git config --global credential.helper store. The format for the .git-credentials file should look like this:

https://<TOKEN>:x-oauth-basic@github.com

Replace with an Github OAuth Token. See https://help.github.com/articles/git-automation-with-oauth-tokens/

This could also be fixed if the git clone command contained the token:password like this:

git clone https://<TOKEN>:x-oauth-basic@github.com/org/repo

However, it would require a code change to make this happen by default. You COULD change the Github project url to include the credentials for each project but that's cumbersome.

[dinoshauer]

Following this, as I would like to use dotCI with our private repos 👍

[dinoshauer]

Just a correction to @joeandaverde 's temporary solution with a .git-credential file it should be named .git-credentials 👍 for that!

[justicel]

@suryagaddipati I'm stuck on solving for this issue. Just wanted to +1 this as an issue for myself as well.

[pcorliss]

Same issue here.

[vineetbaldwa]

Same issue here with trying to load a private repo as a git submodule.

[suryagaddipati]

Private repos now work in 2.7.1 using Docker compose build type