GitHub Enterprise Integration
Authenticating to a GitHub Enterprise instance is slightly different than to github.com due to the nature of OAuth. Basically you have two options:
- using Personal Access Tokens: this approach can be performed by an individual user without needing administrative rights for the GitHub Enterprise instance. It’s recommended if only a small number of your GitHub Enterprise users are using SmartGit
- configuring a Developer Application: this approach requires administrative rights for the GitHub Enterprise instance and changes to the SmartGit System Properties (which can be done on an administrative level for all users, too). It’s recommended if you have a large number of SmartGit users.
Personal Access Token
Personal access tokens are working for GitHub Enterprise as well as
for github.com. To create a personal access token, go to
your Account settings and select Personal Access Tokens.
Invoke Generate New Token, enter SmartGit for the Token
Description and for Select scopes select the repo scope and
the read:org scope.
After confirming with Generate Token, you will see the new token in your list of tokens. Copy the token to the clipboard and paste it into the Token field of SmartGit’s GitHub configuration dialog.
Developer Application
To use SmartGit’s OAuth authentication with your GitHub Enterprise instance, SmartGit has to be configured as Developer Application in your GitHub Enterprise instance. This can be done by every GitHub Enterprise user, from the Personal Settings, OAuth Applications, Developer Applications.
You have to provide an Application name, a Homepage URL and the Authorization callback URL to which GitHub Enterprise will redirect during authentication and pass the generated token to.
GitHub will automatically create a Client ID and a Client Secret
which have to be passed to SmartGit using system properties smartgit.github.enterprise.oauth.id and
smartgit.github.enterprise.oauth.secret. For the example application
from the screenshot, this would be:
smartgit.github.enterprise.oauth.id=0174f225fb6578a19e02
smartgit.github.enterprise.oauth.secret=54a1f910b0c50c172a33938677ca91e4dad22a8d