Cloning with personal access token causing "remote: invalid credentials".

[Malte0621]

Code:

const git = simpleGit.simpleGit({
  baseDir: localPath,
  binary: "git",
  maxConcurrentProcesses: 6,
  config: [
    `http.extraHeader=Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}`,
  ],
});

git
.clone(cloneURL, localPath)
.then(() => {
  returnPromise(true);
})
.catch((err) => {
  console.error(err);
  returnPromise(false);
});

Issue:

After running the code a github credentials prompt pops up, every time.. Even tho the token is provided in the config.

Upon closing OR filling in the prompt, the following shows:

I just recently created the token, with access to all of my repositories (read-only).

[steveukx]

Hi, the extract you've included does look correct... how are you setting TOKEN?

I recommend you run with verbose logging enabled, or use the GIT_TRACE environment variable (see #424 (comment)) to ensure the token is being passed through to git correctly.

[Malte0621]

I ran it with full verbose and this is all that shows up.

[Malte0621]

Seems like its trying to read from some kind of file?
Also, /dev/tty isn't valid .-. (Probably because I'm testing it on windows atm..)

[schettn]

If someone stumbles upon this issue, you have to use basic instead of bearer and base64 encode the token.

const b64Token = Buffer.from(args.token).toString('base64');

const git = simpleGit({
  baseDir: projectPath,
  config: [`http.extraHeader=Authorization: Basic ${b64Token}`],
});