Accessing a private repository

To access a private repository, newt needs to be configured with one of the following:

  • Access token for the repository

  • Basic auth login and password for the user

NOTE: To create a github access token, see https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use/

There are two ways to specify this information, as shown below. In these examples, both a token and a login/password are specified, but you only need to specify one of these.

  1. project.yml (probably world-readable and therefore not secure):

repository.my-private-repo:
    type: github
    vers: 0-dev
    user: owner-of-repo
    repo: repo-name
    token: '8ab6433f8971b05c2a9c3341533e8ddb754e404e'
    login: githublogin
    password: githubpassword

  1. $HOME/.newt/repos.yml

repository.my-private-repo:
    token: '8ab6433f8971b05c2a9c3341533e8ddb754e404e'
    login: githublogin
    password: githubpassword

If both a token and a login+password are specified, newt uses the token. If both the project.yml file and the private repos.yml file specify security credentials, newt uses the project.yml settings.

NOTE: When newt downloads the actual repo content, as opposed to just the repository.yml file, it does not use the same mechanism. Instead, it invokes the git command line tool. This is an annoyance because the user cannot use the same access token for all git operations. This is something that will be fixed in the future.