Issue cloning GitHub repo that has Netlify LFS setup

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What I’m doing:

I’m trying to clone a GitHub repo that backs my Netlify site. The GitHub repo refers to files stored in Netlify LFS. (I am planning to migrate away since I heard it was deprecated, but step one is getting it cloned locally…)

I’m using an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS machine to do the cloning. I have the netlify CLI installed and the proper plugin installed as per the instructions: Large Media setup | Netlify Docs

What is happening:

When I try to clone, I’m getting prompted for a username/password combo. It appears to be coming from the netlify-credential-helper.

> git clone git@github.com:$GITHUB_ACCOUNT/$REPO_NAME.git
Cloning into '$REPO_NAME'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 2946, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (61/61), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (33/33), done.
remote: Total 2946 (delta 39), reused 28 (delta 28), pack-reused 2885
Receiving objects: 100% (2946/2946), 6.30 MiB | 7.99 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (275/275), done.
panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range [:6] with length 0

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/netlify/netlify-credential-helper/credentials.getCredentials({0x9cc1e0, 0xc0000b8000}, {0x9cc200, 0xc0000b8008})
        /Users/erezrokah/Code/github/netlify/netlify-credential-helper/credentials/credentials.go:127 +0x9d0
github.com/netlify/netlify-credential-helper/credentials.handleCommand({0x7ffd86c88500, 0xc0008dde10}, {0x9cc1e0, 0xc0000b8000}, {0x9cc200, 0xc0000b8008})
        /Users/erezrokah/Code/github/netlify/netlify-credential-helper/credentials/credentials.go:66 +0x5d
github.com/netlify/netlify-credential-helper/credentials.HandleCommand()
        /Users/erezrokah/Code/github/netlify/netlify-credential-helper/credentials/credentials.go:53 +0x1e6
main.main()
        /Users/erezrokah/Code/github/netlify/netlify-credential-helper/cmd/netlify-credential-helper/main.go:6 +0x17
Username for 'https://18d20e25-25a0-48ea-adbc-db27e45dc477.netlify.app':

Things I’ve tried:

I ran through the troubleshooting steps here:

Diagnostic info:

> netlify --version
netlify-cli/17.14.0 linux-x64 node-v20.11.0

> netlify login
Already logged in via process.env.NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN set in your terminal session
Run netlify status for account details
or run netlify switch to switch accounts
To see all available commands run: netlify help

> netlify lm:info
✔ Checking Git version [2.37.3]
✔ Checking Git LFS version [3.0.2]
✔ Checking Git LFS filters
✔ Checking Netlify's Git Credentials version [0.1.11]
  • I’ve tried netlify logout and netlify login - this doesn’t seem to change anything
  • I’ve tried manually sourcing the zsh include in my shell (but it’s already sourced in .zshrc)
  • I’ve tried updating to the latest node.js and reinstalling the netlify cli
  • I’ve tried deleting ~/.config/netlify and reinstalling the CLI and netlify lm:install

Any help is appreciated :slight_smile:

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Of course, after I went through the trouble of writing all this down, I find this:

The netlify-credential-helper has a known issue that is several years old - it can’t use an API token defined in the environment.

What I had to do was spin up a VNC session on my Ubuntu box, install Firefox, and do netlify login at the terminal without NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN set. That opened a login page in Firefox.

The first time I logged in, it redirected me to the normal Netlify control panel interface, and the netlify login command timed out. I ran netlify login again, and since Firefox was already logged into Netlify, I instead got an OAuth prompt page. Accepting this prompt caused netlify login to succeed.

Afterwards, I’m able to clone the repo properly.

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Sorry for the hassle, but I’m glad you were able to find a solution and could share this with the community. This will help other folks who stumble upon this thread.