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Git Authentication

For private repositories, we need to separately authenticate against the submodule repositories, as GitHub Codespaces will only inject a token with access rights to the current repository.

Change to the users home directory
```
cd ~
```

Install Git Credential Manager

curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GitCredentialManager/git-credential-manager/main/src/linux/Packaging.Linux/install-from-source.sh &&
sh ./install-from-source.sh &&
git-credential-manager-core configure

Configure a credential store typ, e.g. git config --global credential.credentialStore plaintext
Verify with git config --global -l, it should show git-credential-manager-core as the credential helper.

Update the submodules

Run git submodule update --recursive

See VSCode Issue #109050 for details.

Setup skopeo

Skopeo is needed to download various files during the build:

sudo mkdir -p /run/containers/1000
sudo chmod a+w /run/containers/1000
skopeo login ghcr.io --authfile ~/auth.json --username <your GitHub User>

Enter your token when asked for the password.

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