Find a way to temporarily use specific git credentials about ci

[taquitos]

Can you tell me what the use case is here and why this is important?

I think fastlane.ci will need a specific github CI account in order to use an auth token

[KrauseFx]

I did the write-up over there #33, let me know if that clarifies things

[taquitos]

Ok, I think all the API we create should be on a service, and the API should take a Provider
If it's on behalf of the user, we should take the user's provider
if it's on behalf of the server, we should use the ci's provider
Does this make sense?

[KrauseFx]

Yes, that's perfect. I just didn't figure out yet, what's the best way to use the proper authentication in git. Meaning how can I look in a given user account using the API token, without affecting any other git actions, or the system git. Need to do more investigation

[taquitos]

Now you can choose which ProviderCredential to use with most service APIs.
So you can either take action on behalf of a user, or you can use the system account, or you can take action as the user. So many options for what you want to do!

[KrauseFx]

Ah sorry, I didn't explain it well enough. When you run git push, your GitHub credentials are being used. Depending on the system, those are stored somewhere, either keychain, random config files, or nowhere.

What we need to do, as part of pushing changes as up as CI, we need to authenticate this git push command to use the ProviderCredential you mentioned, so that we can authenticate against GitHub. The tricky piece is that we only want to temporarily set those credentials, instead of setting it system wide. So we want to use the Josh account, or the CI bot account for just this one specific git push, as the next time we run git push, we might be using a different account, and the user might run CI on their local machine, so they expect us to not modify the system-wide credentials.

[taquitos]

Yup, makes sense. I think with our current setup that is possible. It would help to chat about specific instances and code to know exactly what you need 👍

[KrauseFx]

Oh this might work https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29776439/username-and-password-in-command-for-git-push