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Fetch and Pull using Personal Access token

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Description

I'm trying to fetch and pull everytime a request come to the application. So basically im using my own username and password for the same as of now. But when i try to implement it with my personal access token, it throws error.

    var path = "my local drive path";
    using (var repo = new Repository(path))
    {
        FetchOptions options = new FetchOptions();
        options.CredentialsProvider = new CredentialsHandler((url, usernameFromUrl, types) =>
            new UsernamePasswordCredentials()
            {
                Username="xxxxx@yyy.com",
                Password = githubtoken //my personal token
            });

        foreach (Remote remote in repo.Network.Remotes)
        {
            IEnumerable<string> refSpecs = remote.FetchRefSpecs.Select(x => x.Specification);
            Commands.Fetch(repo, remote.Name, refSpecs, options, logMessage);
        }
    }
    //Console.WriteLine(logMessage);

    using (var repo = new Repository(path))
    {
        // Credential information to fetch
        LibGit2Sharp.PullOptions options = new LibGit2Sharp.PullOptions();
        options.FetchOptions = new FetchOptions();
        options.FetchOptions.CredentialsProvider = new CredentialsHandler(
            (url, usernameFromUrl, types) =>
                new UsernamePasswordCredentials()
                {
                    Username = "xxxx@yyy.com",
                    Password = githubtoken //my personal token
                });

        // User information to create a merge commit
        var signature = new LibGit2Sharp.Signature(
            new Identity("xxxx", "xxxx@yyy.com"), DateTimeOffset.Now);

        // Pull
        Commands.Pull(repo, signature, options);
    }

I tried replacing the token in place of the username and giving empty string in place of password. Still i'm getting the same error.

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Start with the CredentialsHandler and UsernamePasswordCredentials passed to Commands.Fetch and Commands.Pull. Reproduce the fetch and pull using the provided credential variants, capture the exact error, and determine the supported personal-access-token authentication behavior; done means both operations authenticate successfully.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp, git
Domain
authentication, tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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