Accessing private github golang repos

If you want to access github private repos without hassle then please try the following:

install git-credential-manager: https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager

• extract the executable and copy to your path

  The tarball contains:

        git-credential-manager  libHarfBuzzSharp.so  libSkiaSharp.so  NOTICE

        mkdir ~/bin/gcm
        cp * ~/bin/gcm
        chmod +x ~/bin/gcm/git-credential-maneger

• configure:

        ~/bin/gcm/git-credential-manager configure

• check ~/.gitconfig:

        [credential]
        helper = 
        helper = /home/eccles/bin/git-credential-manager

• also delete any 'insteadOf entries - they are not required.

• now check out a repo using HTTPS. This is required because that is what ‘go get’ uses.

        # there are more options available - lets just use RAM...
        export GCM_CREDENTIAL_STORE=cache 
        git clone https://github.com/eccles/hestia.git

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[!NOTE] This is an official Microsoft product which is available for all platforms.