[BUG] Unable to access private repo using PAT: terminal prompts disabled

[pro-sumer]

Description

I set up a (fine grained) Personal Access Token (PAT), as as suggested in #150, but still I get this error when testing the connection for a private repo:

could not read Username for 'https://github.com": terminal prompts disabled

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up a Personal Access Token (PAT) on GitHub with access to a private repo
2. Add username and PAT as a HTTPS credential on Dockhand
3. Add the private Git repo as https://github.com/<username>/<repo> using the credential from step 2.
4. Test the connection for the repo from step 3.

Logs

...
2026-07-10T20:21:06.391362227Z [dockhand] 2026-07-10T20:21:06.391Z [Git] Connection test failed: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled
...

Browser logs

n/a

Dockhand version

Version v1.0.36, 4c46993 (Jun 27, 2026)

Hawser version (if used)

n/a

Connection mode

socket

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[pro-sumer]

It seems to work with classic tokens, but not with fine-grained tokens?

(I’d prefer the latter, to give access to selected repositories only)

[jotka]

@pro-sumer we are working on this.