Hub: github.com username: github.com password for (never stored): Requires authentication

[iiinsomnia]

Command attempted:

git tag | xargs hub release delete

What happened:

github.com username: github.com password for  (never stored): Requires authentication

More info:

[env] macOS Catalina 10.15.3
[git version] 2.26.2
[hub version] 2.14.2 

[benknoble]

Well, I don't know how to fix it (maybe use the environment variables for user/pass?), but this happens because hub reads those values from standard in, which has been taken over by the pipeline--nothing to read, or at least not the right things.

[mislav]

@iiinsomnia I'm sorry for the bad experience! The explanation by @benknoble is accurate; hub was not authenticated yet and wasn't able to prompt because stdin wasn't connected to a terminal.

As a workaround, first run hub release to authenticate hub and then you can run any other hub commands. Alternatively, you may supply an authentication token via the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable.