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Hossein Fallah
Hossein Fallah

Reputation: 2539

How to use GITHUB_TOKEN to clone a private repository?

This is my action script:

name: Build

on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - run: |
       whoami
       sudo mkdir /first_org
       sudo chmod -R 777 /first_org
       cd /first_org
       git clone https://github.com/first_org/site
       sudo rm -rf /first_org/site/.git
       sudo mkdir /second_org
       sudo chmod -R 777 /second_org
       cd /second_org
       git clone https://github.com/second_org/site
       cp -a /first_org/site/. /second_org/site
       cd /second_org/site
       sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt install nodejs
       npm build

The /first_org/site is a public repo, but the /second_org/site is a private repo.

I don't use action/checkout@v2 because it doesn't let us specify an ABSOLUTE path to clone into. Thus I had to use pure shell commands.

This action belongs to /second_org/site repo, thus based on docs, I can use GITHUB_TOKEN to access it. But none of the examples show how can I use it in a simple git clone command.

How can I use GITHUB_TOKEN in my shell?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6348

Answers (1)

GuiFalourd
GuiFalourd

Reputation: 22890

You can clone using a token that way in shell (bash):

git clone https://<token>@github.com/<owner>/<repoName>.git

Note that the GITHUB_TOKEN might not have enough scope permission to be used on private repo. In that case, you will need to use a PAT.

Here is an example of an action I created cloning a repo in bash (as reference): https://github.com/GuillaumeFalourd/create-other-repo-branch-action/blob/main/action.yml

Upvotes: 5

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