API token Git authentication in Buddy-hosted repositories

Besides support for external Git hosting services such as GitHub and Bitbucket, Buddy offers native code hosting directly in the service. This solution is good for users who want to keep everything in one place, especially developers using the on-premises version.

With this week's release, we've added API token authentication to Buddy-hosted repositories, which means you can clone and push to your repository from the application level via the API.

Configuration

To generate the token, go to My ID settings and switch to API → Personal Access Tokens:

Token settings

Enter the token name and define the settings:

• To provide read-only access, the token must have the Read repositories scope.
• To allow pushing changes to the repo, set the scope to Write to repositories (this scope includes RO access by default)

Accessing repository

To access the repository, run:

git clone https://$TOKEN@buddy.works/$WORKSPACE_NAME/$PROJECT_NAME
$

API documentation

• Personal access tokens
• OAuth applications
• API methods – allow you to list branches, commits, and repository contents