Private repos?

[Chris Penner]

I get

Error: could not display pull requests. Please make sure this is a valid repository.

I assume it's because my github repository is private; is there a way to have the utility ask for auth or use existing github auth?

[Jon Kuperman]

Yes! I really want to add this. The API supports it but I need to figure out how to recognize that and ask for username / password or something like that. I'll look into it!

[Oskar Karlsson]

Username/password will not work if you have two-factor authentication enabled so it might be better to use a token (or give the choice to the user). One option could be to add a --login flag (or maybe --set-token to support other options as well) which asks for a token (or username/password) and saves it to disk and next time pullit are invoked it will use the credentials if any :)

[Jon Kuperman]

Thanks @tjoskar! All good info.

[Kristoffer Remback]

Perhaps storing these in a folder called ~/.pullit (and equivalent for Windows) with a credentials file similar to that of the AWS cli would work for this?

This could open up for some pretty neat customization!

~/.pullit/
├── credentials.json
├── config.json

~/.pullit/credentials.json with different profiles (based on the auth options in node-github):

{
  "default": {
    "type": "token",
    "token": "<your_token_here>"
  },
  "other-profile-with-oauth": {
    "type": "oauth",
    "key": "<your_client_id>",
    "secret": "<your_client_secret_here>"
  }
}

And ~/.pullit/config.json with some example config

{
  "remote": {
    "default": "origin"
  },
  "colors": {
    "background-color": "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)",
    "color": "rgba(255, 255, 255, 255)"
  }
}