WARN Failed to retrieve token from `gh auth token' on every install and it slows down automated installations.

[cocoonkid]

WARN Failed to retrieve token from `gh auth token` err=Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }
 WARN Failed to read git credential file

How can I disable this ? the systems I am using cargo-binstall on do not even have gh installed at all.

Thanks for looking into this.

[NobodyXu]

You can disable it using --no-discover-github-to

[ryankurte]

i feel like we could silence this warning unless it discover-github-to or verbose logging is enabled?

[cocoonkid]

@ryankurte thank you for acting on this in this quick manner.

But only silencing it won't fix the underlying issue. Because in my case for example it stops ansible from executing until it times out.
So imho it should be disabled until explicitly forced? Or is that what was meant with "silencing".

[NobodyXu]

But only silencing it won't fix the underlying issue. Because in my case for example it stops ansible from executing until it times out. So imho it should be disabled until explicitly forced? Or is that what was meant with "silencing".

Oh you have gh installed using ansible and it is quite slow?

I never encountered such environment, I've already converted the gu-auth-token execution to be async

[NobodyXu]

@cocoonkid You can disable it using --no-discover-github-to

out of curiosity, how long does it take for for gh auth token to run on your machine?

[alex35mil]

What about the case when some other binary executes it?
PS The binary in question is cargo-update.

[NobodyXu]

I can:

• add an env for that arg
• make gh-auth-token execute in parallel, until it is actually used

BTW if you explicitly provide a github token via env var GITHUB_TOKEN it would then not use gh-auth-token.

BTW how long does it take for gh auth token to run on your machine?

[NobodyXu]

@alex35mil @cocoonkid Opened #1763 for an env var to disable github token scraping.

[NobodyXu]

Released cargo-binstall 1.7.0

[cocoonkid]

Apology for the late reply:

I installed gh on the hosts as well but this did not help. (which is kinda weird?)

The timeout in my case happened around the 30sec mark.

Will try out the ENV var soon! thanks so much for the quick fix!

[cocoonkid]

Just confirming: the env variable solved the isssue as expected. Many many thanks!

[NobodyXu]

I installed gh on the hosts as well but this did not help. (which is kinda weird?)

I think it's because of the order in PATH?