Trouble with git clone in GitHub Classroom forked repo #9851
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Good afternoon! I am using GitHub and Positron for the first time for a data science class, and am having trouble with them. I have a git repository that was generated in GitHub Classroom, and I have a forked repository for my own work. I am trying to clone that repo into Positron. Whenever I do (using the proper credentials, the correct URL, etc. etc.) I get the "Repository not found" error. I am running WSL through a remote connection in Positron. I am using all of the correct authentication methods, and I am able to run the correct process through VS Code (in WSL) without an issue. The problem is not that the repository doesn't exist, or that my authentication is wrong. The same thing happens when I try to use the "New Folder from Git" button. Does anyone have insights? It works perfectly fine in VS Code. |
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Can you try out using Positron all locally, not in a WSL session? I understand that might not be how you actually want to work, but can you try it out that way to see if it's a problem with how WSL is set up? |
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Ah, that worked! Hmmm, then do you have any thoughts for what may be happening in WSL? If not, that's alright |
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We don't yet officially support WSL; we are tracking that in #4366. I imagine what you're using is the community-maintained fork here: https://open-vsx.org/extension/kv9898/open-remote-wsl It might be worthwhile to ask that maintainer what might be going on, but I see that issues are disabled on that repo. @kv9898 where do you want folks to report bugs/problems with the extension you published? |
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I actually prefer that they are reported here in the Positron repo since I may also get help from Posit folks. (But I didn't disable the issues, I guess they are turned off by default when I created the fork) In theory, my wsl extension should share a lot of problems with Positron's builtin ssh one as they are forks from the same author. I would also be happy to transfer my extension's ownership to Posit for best official integration. The only two changes I have made really are 1 the server downloading template and 2. Calling windows Positron from wsl. As for this particular bug, I don't really have a clue at the moment. |
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May I know if you can do git clone from the Positron terminal command line in WSL? From my understsnding, Positron's source control panel is a wrapper of the command line version and I wonder if the latter works well. From my use I'm having no problem with starting a new folder from git in WSL Positron. |
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Ah hi there! Sorry for the delay. Git Clone in my terminal command line in Positron WSL has not been working. The 'clone repository' button in the source control panel works for public repos, but not private. Could that be the issue? Would I need to make all my repos public? |
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I think that's the issue! So basically the WSL has not "logged in" to GitHub correctly as Windows has already. Please could you try following https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/set-up-git and https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/caching-your-github-credentials-in-git?platform=linux and see if they solve the command line problem? Once you fix that, Positron's source control panel would work automatically I think. |
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I think VSCode might have got around that somehow by transferring Windows credentials to WSL, but Microsoft is Microsoft. I think configuring your Git in WSL is worth the effort - you may need git CLI operations outside an IDE/code editor one day. |
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That worked! Thank you so much! Using the CLI and logging in with my browser seemed to do the trick! Thank you everyone for your help! |
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That's actually my first "Selected Answer" so thank you as well hehe. |
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I think that's the issue! So basically the WSL has not "logged in" to GitHub correctly as Windows has already. Please could you try following https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/set-up-git and https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/caching-your-github-credentials-in-git?platform=linux and see if they solve the command line problem? Once you fix that, Positron's source control panel would work automatically I think.