checkout: Failing to install node modules from private repos [using urls]

I’m trying to setup a workflow that simply runs npm install/test. I’m having problems with projects that have private github urls. I tried settng token with a PAT that has full repo scopes… no luck. Any insight? npm issues git clone commands… by the description w/ persisting the token, I’d expect this to work😕

{
  "name": "foo",
  "dependencies": {
    "some-private-module": "SomeAcmeCo/some-private-repo"
  }
}

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Created 4 years ago
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Using webfactory/ssh-agent fixes my issue.

jsg2021 on Jul 6, 2020

@ericsciple thanks. I’ll have to wait for some solution. If this was just one or two projects I wouldn’t mind, but because actions do not have a way to point to a central definition (that I know of) I’d have to add (and then update) 50+ projects.

jsg2021 on Mar 23, 2020

It needs to be global. If I add a step before npm install that does:

auth_header="$(git config --local --get http.https://github.com/.extraheader)"
git config --global http.https\:\/\/github.com\/.extraheader "$auth_header"
git config --local --unset-all http.https\:\/\/github.com\/.extraheader

My action passes.

jsg2021 on Feb 29, 2020