# Point a docker installation to a private git repo

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/point-a-docker-installation-to-a-private-git-repo/31174
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [July 19, 2015, 4:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/point-a-docker-installation-to-a-private-git-repo/31174 "2015-07-19T04:34:34Z")
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### Author: ![IvanShao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90db22/32.png) [@IvanShao](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IvanShao)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 4:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/point-a-docker-installation-to-a-private-git-repo/31174/1 "2015-07-19T04:34:34Z")

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Hi Discouse devs,

We are building a customized discourse using the docker installation, and would like to point to a private repo of ourselves. We are wondering what is the right of doing so, and what would be the best practice of pulling discourse updates in the future.

Right now, I was able to make it point to our repo by following instruction here: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-my-customized-repo-of-discourse-on-production-server/23364](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-my-customized-repo-of-discourse-on-production-server/23364), but because our repo is private, I had to hardcode the user name and password in the git repo url in the config file. I hope there is better way of doing so, and a standard way of getting discourse updates.