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Google "Open In Cloud Shell" broken?

Did Google just break its own "Open in Cloud Shell" feature?

I'm getting this error when trying to use a cloud shell link that specifies a git repo to clone from.

fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled

I've tried on a virgin Google account, so pretty sure it's something to do with the default Cloud Shell VM setup and not something I did on the machine. It literally stopped working from one moment to the next.

Solution

  • Github is shutting down password authentication in favor of token-based authentication. To avoid confusion, Open in Cloud Shell will now fail instead of prompting for username/password. To continue to use Open in Cloud Shell with repositories that require authentication, you can either:

    1. Manually cache your git credentials by running a git command prior to Open in Cloud Shell.
    2. Configure git credential storage so you are not prompted for a username/password.