Cannot update submodules in private repos requiring token

Seems like there is no option to pass token in order to update submodules in the private repository… How could I pass a token?

import Git from 'simple-git';
  const git = Git(localDir);
await git.submoduleUpdate(['--init', upgrade.depName]);

For initial repo one could modify repo URL and add token there, but for submodules it doesn’t seem to work…

[steveukx]

If your submodules have been added with an http based remote uri, the .netrc file will be picked up as usual when git is called by simple-git. You may need to check that there is a .netrc file configured for the user you’re running the nodejs script as.

To help finding issues with authorisation in the sub-module, you may want to enable git tracing

[steveukx]

Do you know how you would pass the token through if you were using command line git?

If you need to pass a custom header, use the per-command-configuration plugin:

import Git from 'simple-git';
const git = Git(localDir, { config: [`http.extraheader=Authorization: Basic ${token}`] });
// any command run through this `git` instance will now include the custom Authorization header