A small Golang utility to clone a GitHub repository using Github app credentials.
You can use this in a bunch of ways. One example of a use for this is Ansible Tower which currently is limited to using PATs for its Github integration. PATs and things like service account users both overscope access as well as allow long aged tokens, by using this utility you can avoid that.
You need to have a Github App built and deployed to the repos you want to clone. Do that first.
- Clone repo
- Build the binary
- Defaults to an osx build
- OS X build option
make compile-osx - Linux arm build option
make compile-linux - Windows build option
make compile-windows
- Your binary to run is in bin/
Warning: Your App ID is semi-sensitive information and your key (.pem file) is private and is definately sensitive. If you build this into a workflow, be sure to pickup these details in a secure manner.
Linux/OS X:
./tokenclone --app_id <id> --pem_path <path to your pem> --repo_url <git repo, https clone link>, and --clone_dir <directory to clone to>
Windows:
tokenclone.exe --app_id <id> --pem_path <path to your pem> --repo_url <git repo, https clone link>, and --clone_dir <directory to clone to>
./tokenclone --help