Mounting Git configuration

The user.name and user.email fields will be set automatically to the gitconfig content from a git provider, connected to Che by a Git-provider access token or a token generated via OAuth, if username and email are set on the provider’s user profile page.

Follow the instructions below to mount a Git config file in a workspace.

Prerequisites

  • You have logged in to the cluster.

Procedure

  1. Prepare a new Kubernetes ConfigMap.

    kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: workspace-userdata-gitconfig-configmap
  namespace: <user_namespace> (1)
  labels:
    controller.devfile.io/mount-to-devworkspace: 'true'
    controller.devfile.io/watch-configmap: 'true'
  annotations:
    controller.devfile.io/mount-as: subpath
    controller.devfile.io/mount-path: /etc/
data:
  gitconfig: <gitconfig content> (2)
    1 A user namespace. Visit https://<che_fqdn>/api/kubernetes/namespace to get your Che user namespace as name.
    2 The content of your gitconfig file content.

  2. Apply the ConfigMap.

    $ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
<ConfigMap_prepared_in_step_1>
EOF
Verification

  1. Start a new workspace by using the URL of a remote Git repository that the Git provider hosts.

  2. Once the workspace is started, open a new terminal in the tools container and run git config --get-regexp user.*. Your Git user name and email should appear in the output.