Using this action with private repositories and registries

Hi!

This issue might have nothing to do with this action itself, just my lack of understanding of how actions work. Maybe it is a request for new documentation or sample?

So my setup is that I have a repository called vcpkg-registry. I have configured a couple of vcpkg ports there, and in my main application project I have setup that registry to be used as a source for my shared library project. All of these repos are private. Now when I attempt to use my pipeline (that is pretty much copy paste the hosted-basic example) I of course get this error:

Fetching baseline information from https://github.com/lerppana/vcpkg-registry...
 Error: Couldn't find baseline "89f7510a4c0431b03a4012ec7011986b0b1dd150" for repo https://github.com/lerppana/vcpkg-registry:
  fatal: not a git repository: 'C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git\.git'

  Error: Failed to fetch https://github.com/lerppana/vcpkg-registry:
  Error: Failed to fetch ref 89f7510a4c0431b03a4012ec7011986b0b1dd150 from repository https://github.com/lerppana/vcpkg-registry.
  fatal: Cannot prompt because user interactivity has been disabled.
  bash: /dev/tty: No such device or address
  error: failed to execute prompt script (exit code 1)
  fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such file or directory

So my question is if this action is able to use private repo registries? Is it just matter of configuring login credentials for git in runner, or is there some proper way to achieve this?

[lukka]

@lerppana awesome! In the future I’d like to create a sample showing vcpkg-registry working with private repos. Thanks for finding a working solution and refining it!

[lerppana]

Thanks @lukka for pointing those threads for me, it clarified the issue for me. I picked up two different methods that were discussed there which both worked fine:

#      method 1
      - run: echo "url=https://github.com"$'\n'"path=lerppana/vcpkg-registry"$'\n'"username=unused"$'\n'"password=${{ secrets.PAT }}"$'\n' | git credential approve
        shell: bash
        name: 'git credential approve'

#      method 2
      - run: git config --global credential.helper '!f() { echo username=unused; echo password=${{ secrets.PAT }}; }; f'
        shell: bash
        name: 'git credential helper setup'

both of them work with personal access tokens, I believe method 1 allows to set PAT per repo because path is given as parameter (which could be handy). It is bash script, but works fine with windows agent for me when shell: bash is specified. Otherwise it tries to default to pw.

EDIT: I´ll close the issue as it is now fixed.