Support for ssh remote workflows (and actions) or using git config

[mbrancato]

Act version

act version 0.2.40-14-g932863b

Feature description

I'm using a build from master that contains the new feature for remote workflows. The remote workflows are hard coded to use HTTPS, and I need SSH support.

act/pkg/runner/reusable_workflow.go

Line 109 in 82a8c1e

return fmt.Sprintf("https://%s/%s/%s", r.URL, r.Org, r.Repo)

Normally I would use the insteadOf config to fix this but it didn't seem to work.

git config --global url."ssh://git@github.com/".insteadOf "https://github.com/"

% act pull_request
[build-test-release.yaml/MyWorkflow]   ☁  git clone 'https://github.com/myorg/reusable-workflows' # ref=my_branch
[build-test-release.yaml/MyWorkflow] Unable to clone https://github.com/myorg/reusable-workflows refs/heads/my_branch: authentication required
Error: authentication required

However, if I manually clone it, the insteadOf config works fine. I noticed the clone is not run in a container, so I'm not sure if it is otherwise ignoring the global git config.

% git clone 'https://github.com/myorg/reusable-workflows'
Cloning into 'reusable-workflows'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1183, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (360/360), done.
...

[mbrancato]

a workaround for this is to manually checkout the repo, then checkout the ref.

git clone https://github.com/{{org}}/{{repo}} ~/.cache/act/{{org}-{{repo}}-.github-workflows-{{workflow_filename}}@{{ ref | replace("/", "-")}}/
cd ~/.cache/act/{{org}-{{repo}}-.github-workflows-{{workflow_filename}}.yaml@{{ ref | replace("/", "-")}}/
git checkout {{ref}}

[mbrancato]

I noticed this is lacking for remote actions as well that require SSH. The workaround does not work for the remote actions.

[qbx2]

By the way, why does not act clone using GITHUB_TOKEN ? gh-cli already supports to clone using GITHUB_TOKEN. https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_repo_clone

EDIT: My bad, I just had to do act -s GITHUB_TOKEN=$GITHUB_TOKEN

[marcelarie]

act -s GITHUB_TOKEN=$GITHUB_TOKEN does not work for me.

It returns:

WARN  ⚠ You are using Apple M-series chip and you have not specified container architecture, you might encounter issues while running act. If so, try running it with '--container-architecture linux/amd64'. ⚠
[qa/🕵️ Quality Assurance/🕵️ Quality Assurance          ]   ☁  git clone 'https://github.com/stuartapp/mc-gh-actions' # ref=main
[qa/🕵️ Quality Assurance/🕵️ Quality Assurance          ] Unable to clone https://github.com/stuartapp/mc-gh-actions refs/heads/main: authorization failed
Error: authorization failed