Merge pull request #13744 from quarto-dev/fix/issue-10031

Author: cderv

news/changelog-1.9.md

@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ All changes included in 1.9:
 - ([#13570](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/pull/13570)): Replace Twitter with Bluesky in default blog template and documentation examples. New blog projects now include Bluesky social links instead of Twitter.
 - ([#13716](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/13716)): Fix draft pages showing blank during preview when pre-render scripts are configured.
 
+### `manuscript`
+
+- ([#10031](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/10031)): Fix manuscript rendering prompting for GitHub credentials when origin points to private repository. Auto-detection of manuscript URL now fails gracefully with a warning instead of blocking renders.
+
 ## `publish`
 
 ### Confluence

src/project/types/manuscript/manuscript.ts

@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ import {
   shouldMakeMecaBundle,
 } from "./manuscript-meca.ts";
 import { readLines } from "../../../deno_ral/io.ts";
+import { debug } from "../../../deno_ral/log.ts";
+import { logLevel, warnOnce } from "../../../core/log.ts";
 import {
   computeProjectArticleFile,
   isArticle,
@@ -366,8 +368,22 @@ export const manuscriptProjectType: ProjectType = {
       if (manuscriptConfig) {
         let baseUrl = manuscriptConfig[kManuscriptUrl];
         if (baseUrl === undefined) {
-          const ghContext = await gitHubContext(options.project.dir);
-          baseUrl = ghContext.siteUrl;
+          try {
+            const ghContext = await gitHubContext(options.project.dir);
+            baseUrl = ghContext.siteUrl;
+          } catch (e) {
+            // git ls-remote failed (credentials, network, host key, etc.) - don't block rendering
+            const errorMessage = e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e);
+            if (logLevel() === "DEBUG") {
+              debug(`Failed to auto-detect manuscript URL from GitHub: ${errorMessage}`);
+            }
+            const debugHint = logLevel() === "DEBUG" ? '' : ' Run with --log-level debug for details.';
+            warnOnce(
+              'Unable to auto-detect manuscript URL from GitHub Pages. ' +
+              'Set manuscript-url explicitly in your configuration if needed.' +
+              debugHint
+            );
+          }
         }
         if (baseUrl) {
           filterParams[kManuscriptUrl] = baseUrl;