Using Drush Make with private git repositories on github

At SystemSeed, we use Jenkins to trigger automated platform builds directly from commits to our git code repositories. A lot of our code is hosted on github, although due to the nature of our work, some of our client repositories are private. Our Jenkins build scripts are heavily based on Mig5's article Zero-touch Drupal deployment with Jenkins, Aegir, Git, Fabric and Drush which enables drush make files to be fetched and build directly from the web. However, one difference is that our repositories are private, and therefore inaccessible to drush make directly. Yesterday, I found a way to overcome this by using Github's API directly with drush make.

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