Ability to pull a private repository via Git

[FoksVHox]

Hello!

I'd like to pull a private repository once a day, however, I currently need to retype the credentials every time. When I try to use git to store the credentials, I get the following error:

# git config --global credential.helper cache
error: could not lock config file /root/.gitconfig: Read-only file system

Would it be possible to add a way to do this?

[girish]

@FoksVHox On Cloudron , only the /app/data (persistent, part of app backup), /run (runtime) and /tmp (temporary, auto-cleaned up) directories are writable.

So, you have to set the credential path to somewhere in /app/data using git config credential.helper 'store --file=/app/data/git_credentials'. Important: You have to run this command in your git checkout! This is because it saves this info inside .git/config.

For example, my repo is helloworld. Then, I cd into it and:

root@89cc2457-9d0a-4752-affb-c918fa4a90db:/app/data/helloworld# git config credential.helper 'store --file=/app/data/git_credentials'

root@89cc2457-9d0a-4752-affb-c918fa4a90db:/app/data/helloworld# git fetch
Username for 'https://git.cloudron.space': root
Password for 'https://root@git.cloudron.space': 

root@89cc2457-9d0a-4752-affb-c918fa4a90db:/app/data/helloworld# git fetch

(the second command above ends up storing it in the file /app/data/git_credentials and the third command does not ask for password anymore).

[girish]

Also, to automate the pull, put this in the app's cron:

* * * * * echo "==> Pulling" && cd /app/data/helloworld && git pull

Then, in the logs, you will see:

Mar 20 15:48:02 ==> Pulling
Mar 20 15:48:02 From https://git.cloudron.space/root/helloworld
Mar 20 15:48:02 8e9fa9a..6a79ead master -> origin/master
Mar 20 15:48:02 Updating 8e9fa9a..6a79ead
Mar 20 15:48:02 Fast-forward
Mar 20 15:48:02 index.php | 3 ++-
Mar 20 15:48:02 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

It pulls every minute for testing, so you might want to adjust the cron pattern.