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gettext: Use a git credential helper to set token

Open davidmhewitt opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

The GitHub checkout@v2 action sets the credentials on the repo differently, meaning that doing this does not work anymore:

https://github.com/elementary/actions/blob/4e4476db39b27cc98506d31de20e987b1ec78704/gettext-template/entrypoint.sh#L35

This means that the action can no longer push to protected branches using the elementaryBot token.

Reading this suggests that adding a git credential helper instead should be the solution to this problem: https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/162

So it looks like we can add something like this instead:

git config credential.https://github.com/.helper "! f() { echo username=x-access-token; echo password=$GITHUB_TOKEN; };f"

davidmhewitt avatar Nov 09 '20 10:11 davidmhewitt