Support pulling from a private repo

nbgitpuller is presumably intended for use with public repositories, but is there also a way of pulling files down from a private repo?

Presumably this would require a key adding to the repo URL, ideally set from a read-only account on the repo?

[biojerm]

@betatim Thanks for the tips. To expand a bit on what I had to do to get the nbgitpuller link to work:

1. Create a Personal Access Token following these directions and copy the key to some place safe

2. Use the nbgitpuller constructor to help build the URL

3. In the Repo_url field add your GitHubUserName : SecretToken @ between the http:// and your git branch URL(no spaces, I just added those for emphasis. Don’t forget the .git at the end of the URL path

[yuvipanda]

I’ve got it working with github.com/yuvipanda/git-credential-helpers. There’s some helpful config here, here. https://github.com/utoronto-2i2c/jupyterhub-deploy#pulling-from-private-github-repos-with-nbgitpuller describes the final workflow.

Would love for someone to write this up! I’ll try and find some time in the next month for it…