git-credential-helpers

Collection of git-credential helpers, focused on interacting with private repos.

Installation

git-credential-helpers is available on PyPI, and can be installed with pip.

python3 -m pip install git-credential-helpers

A number of scripts with names of form git-credential-$NAME will now be in $PATH.

Configuration

You must configure git to use the helpers appropriately by adding an entry in gitconfig.

github-app helper

In your gitconfig file, add the following section:

[credential "https://github.com"]
  helper = !git-credential-github-app --app-key-file <path-to-your-app-rsa-key-file> --app-id <id-of-your-github-app>
  useHttpPath = true

If you are doing this in a docker container, I'd recommend putting this under /etc/gitconfig. Else, try ~/.gitconfig