How to configure credentials

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I would like help with my configuration

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Problem

I'm currently trying to update a repository with some Ansible playbooks.

These playbooks are using some collection that is hosted on a private git repository.

To be clear, in my Ansible repository, I have a requirements.yml file this

collections:
  - name: my_git_repo_url
    type: git
    version: 1.0.30

When I'm running renovate interactively, renovate asks me for my git password. If I enter my git password, it works.

Now the tricky part is when I want to run the bot non interactively, it stills ask me for the password, but I can't give it.

I tried multiple hostRules trying to tell Renovate which token to use but wasn't able to find the right configuration. Am I missing some documentation on how to define this configuration ?

Workaround

As of now, I'm using a more low-level git configuration based on GIT_ASKPASS environment variable.

Which ends to :

• a git_askpass.sh script

#!/usr/bin/env sh

## This is a script to authenticate through Git for Ansible galaxy process
## We didn't find any other method to authenticate, so this is a little hacky, but this works.

echo $YOUR_ENV_VAR_NAME

• Define your git token in YOUR_ENV_VAR_NAME environment variable
• Define the path to your git_askpass.sh script in GIT_ASKPASS environment variable

Then run Renovate bot and everything runs fine 👍

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[mwiede]

I landed here because I had the same problem, but in the end I missed the correct hostRule. If you activate LOG_DEBUG=debug you should see something like this:
DEBUG: Found hostRules username and password for url https://foobar.git (repository=xyz/foobar)