Importing a private Github repo errors

[BenRacicot]

It looks like IDX cannot import a private repo (errors). If it can and this is an existing feature I cannot find any details on it.

Can someone add this to the roadmap or help me understand how to integrate my private repos?

[Srivats_Venkataraman]

I am pretty sure you can… It’s similar to how you would import a public repo… You would just need to add the link to the private repo then it will ask you to authentic with a code

[BenRacicot]

Yeah tried that, it errored out.

[Avijit_Pal1]

is it possible to share the error? I have imported a lot of private projects in IDX.

[BenRacicot]

Hi, actually I didnt add it because I cannot find the Github integration UI in IDX. Originally it was an option on the IDX homepage, (the flow that errored) but now I absolutely cannot find where or how to work with Git in IDX.

Can you explain to me?

Update found it on the IDX homepage under import.

This is bizarre because, do we have control over IDX internal folder system?
fatal: destination path '/home/user/rte' already exists and is not an empty directory.

[Avijit_Pal1]

Okay, I think I got your issue. If you look into the Terminal its saying:
“fatal: destination path ‘/home/user/rte’ already exists and is not an empty directory.”
Which means in your IDX projects there is already a same project exist with same name as “rte”

Visit https://idx.google.com/ and check “My workspace” section for your projects

I hope this helps! Let me know if it works.

[BenRacicot]

Thanks so much for helping but there are def bugs in this flow. Firstly, this wasnt the first issue I ran into.

Second I only have one project in my workspaces and its named “Recruitler”, not rte.

Just deleted all projects… same bug.

[kazmi]

This issue still exists. I am unable to import a project from Github. Can we know when this gonna be fixed? Any workaround until an official fix for this?

[Toly_Dev]

i just started a new project and then in the terminal gh auth login and then gh repo clone username/project

[AlexV]

same issue as others in this thread: when cloning an existing github repo, a directory is created during the env setup, but then the clone command fails - because the directory already exists

[David_Macfarlan]

The exact Git clone failed error for me.

[alfiepoleon]

+1
Error: Git clone failed. Do you want to clone a different repo?

Happens on a new project import from Github. There is no other existing project with the same name.

 *  Executing task: git clone https://github.com/example-user/example-project /home/user/example-project 

fatal: destination path '/home/user/example-project' already exists and is not an empty directory.

 *  The terminal process "bash '-c', 'git clone https://github.com/example-user/example-project /home/user/example-project'" failed to launch (exit code: 128). 
 *  Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it. 

####Directory contents

example-project-12345678:~/example-project$ ll /
total 60
drwxr-xr-x   3 user   user    4096 Apr  9 01:30 aida
lrwxrwxrwx   1 user   user       7 Apr 10 14:02 bin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 14  2024 boot
drwxr-xr-x   3 user   user    4096 Apr  9 01:30 code-oss
drwxr-xr-x  11 nobody nogroup 3100 Apr 10 14:01 dev
drwxr-sr-x   4 user   user     125 Apr  9 01:43 ephemeral
drwx------  10 user   user     600 Apr 10 14:02 etc
drwxr-xr-x   1 nobody nogroup 4096 Apr  9 01:30 google
drwxr-xr-x   6 nobody nogroup 4096 Apr 10 14:01 home
lrwxrwxrwx   1 user   user       7 Apr 10 14:02 lib -> usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx   1 user   user       9 Apr 10 14:02 lib64 -> usr/lib64
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody nogroup 4096 Apr  7 00:00 media
drwxr-xr-x   1 nobody nogroup 4096 Apr 10 14:01 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   1 nobody nogroup 4096 Apr 10 14:01 nix
drwxr-xr-x   1 nobody nogroup 4096 Apr  9 01:30 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 202 nobody nogroup    0 Apr 10 14:02 proc
drwx------   1 nobody nogroup 4096 Apr 10 14:01 root
drwxr-xr-x   3 user   user      60 Apr 10 14:02 run
lrwxrwxrwx   1 user   user       8 Apr 10 14:02 sbin -> usr/sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody nogroup 4096 Apr  7 00:00 srv
dr-xr-xr-x  13 nobody nogroup    0 Apr 10 14:01 sys
drwxr-xr-x   3 user   user    4096 Apr 10 14:12 tmp
dr-xr-xr-x   7 nobody nogroup 4096 Jan  1  1970 usr
drwxr-xr-x   2 user   user      40 Apr 10 14:02 var
example-project-12345678:~/example-project$ ll /home
total 20
drwx------  2 nobody nogroup 16384 Apr  9 01:34 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 10 user   user     4096 Apr 10 14:10 user
example-project-12345678:~/example-project$ ll /home/user/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Apr 10 14:02 example-project
example-project-12345678:~/example-project$ la /home/user/example-project/
.vscode
example-project-12345678:~/example-project$ 

[Naz_Hussain]

I can confirm I’ve been having this issue for the last few weeks on IDX, and now again for the last 24 hours on Firebase Studio. It needs acknowledging and fixing urgently. Thanks.

[mikesims321]

Same issue for me. just commenting so I can stay updated on progress. thanks team!

[tufan]

yo, try this: Git Repo Clone Keeps Failing - #4 by tufan

[Alan_Zelenov]

Same. created a test repository, and when I try to import it while it was set to private, I received an error. However, after changing its status to public, the import was completed without any problems.

[jenh]

Hey, all! The team is working on a fix and hopes to have it ready soon, but in the meantime, you can work around this by deleting the directory Firebase Studio creates and authenticating to GitHub on the command line.

Step-by-step directions:

1. Open a terminal (Ctrl-Shift-C).

2. Delete the directory that was created:

   1. cd .. ← verify that if you type pwd, you see /home/user.
   2. rm -r $repo_name

3. Authenticate to GitHub with the GitHub CLI: Run gh auth login. You’ll get a nix message about fetching gh to run it.

4. Press Enter to one-time install gh.

5. Answer the following questions (this shows the HTTPS/browser flow, which is probably the fastest/easiest):

   • What account do you want to log into? GitHub.com

   • What is your preferred protocol for Git operations? HTTPS

   • Authenticate Git with your GitHub credentials? Yes

   • How would you like to authenticate GitHub CLI? Login with a web browser

6. Copy your one-time code: [8 alphanumeric character code GitHub for GitHub auth] (copy this but don’t Ctrl-C and stop the auth process like I keep doing, haha!)

7. Press Enter to open github.com in your browser and do the stuff GitHub requests.

8. After authentication to GitHub is complete, run:
   git clone https://github.com/$repo_owner/$repo_name.git

9. Change back into the repo directory (cd $repo_name).

Now, everything should show up in Explorer view and you can run standard git commands in the terminal to add files, commit, and push to your private repo.

Hope this helps and thanks so much for reporting this!

[Dencasrewqr5t]

Method 2 - Bitbucket:

Folge diesen Schritten, um ein Verzeichnis zu löschen, dich mit Bitbucket zu authentifizieren und ein Repository über SSH zu klonen.

Schritt 1: Öffne ein Terminal

Drücke Ctrl-Shift-C, um ein Terminalfenster zu öffnen.

Schritt 2: Lösche das Verzeichnis

Wechsle zunächst ein Verzeichnis nach oben, um den aktuellen Pfad zu überprüfen:

cd ..

Verwende den Befehl pwd, um sicherzustellen, dass du dich im richtigen Verzeichnis befindest (/home/user).

Jetzt entferne das Verzeichnis, das du erstellt hast:

rm -r $repo_name

Schritt 3: Erzeuge einen SSH-Key

Falls du noch keinen SSH-Key hast, erstelle einen neuen:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "deine.email@domain.de"

Lass die Eingabeaufforderung den Standardpfad (~/.ssh/id_ed25519) verwenden und setze bei der Eingabe einer Passphrase Enter (oder gib eine Passphrase ein, falls du eine setzen möchtest).

Schritt 4: Füge den SSH-Key zu deinem Bitbucket-Account hinzu

Kopiere den öffentlichen SSH-Key:

cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

Gehe dann zu Bitbucket → Personal settings → SSH keys → Add key und füge den kopierten SSH-Key ein.

Schritt 5: Teste die SSH-Verbindung

Vergewissere dich, dass die SSH-Verbindung zu Bitbucket funktioniert:

ssh -T git@bitbucket.org

Wenn alles richtig ist, bekommst du eine Bestätigung:

“authenticated via ssh key”

Schritt 6: Klone das Repository über SSH

Nun kannst du das Repository mit der SSH-URL klonen:

git clone git@bitbucket.org:<workspace>/<repo>.git

Ersetze <workspace> mit dem Namen deines Workspaces und <repo> mit dem Repository-Namen.

Schritt 7: Wechsel in das Repository-Verzeichnis

Wechsle in das neu geklonte Repository:

cd $repo_name

Schritt 8: Standard-Git-Kommandos

Jetzt kannst du das Repository im Dateimanager sehen und mit den üblichen Git-Kommandos arbeiten: Dateien hinzufügen, Änderungen committen und die Updates ins private Repository pushen.

git status
git add .
git commit -m "✨ Dein Commit-Text"
git push origin main