Github Enterprise Private Mode in 1.0+

Drone Support
1

I am running drone 1.2.1 against a github enterprise instance in “private mode”.

When repos are fetched, they do not have the repo_private flag set in the db. Manually changing it allows clones to succeed.

From this thread, I rebuilt the entire drone system (in k8s) with DRONE_GITHUB_PRIVATE_MODE set from the start. No effect. Still had to manually set repo_private in postgres to get clones working.

Digging in the code from what I can find, it looks like maybe that flag doesn’t exist in 1.0+? Is there some other way to do this?

2

DRONE_GITHUB_PRIVATE_MODE was used in older versions of Drone, but in 1.x you should set DRONE_GIT_ALWAYS_AUTH=true. This instructs Drone to always clone a repository with credentials.

3

Perfect! That does the trick.

Am I correct in assuming it clones with the oauth token from the user who first activated the repo?

4

Great

Yes, this is the default behavior. You also have the option to provide global credentials via DRONE_GIT_USERNAME and DRONE_GIT_PASSWORD.