persistRepoData causes failures after first run

[duckblaster]

How are you running Renovate?

Self-hosted Renovate CLI

Which platform you running Renovate on?

Azure DevOps

Which version of Renovate are you using?

43.220.0

Please tell us more about your question or problem

When persistRepoData is set to true, the first run completes successfully, but later runs fail as the first run left http.extraheader set in /tmp/renovate/repos/azure/projectname/reponame/.git/config, and subsequent runs don't update it causing it to fail when the original token expires.

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Logs

Full logs at https://gist.github.com/duckblaster/ed857303e55b59666f0449014377dcdd ``` 2026-06-18T02:28:45.4154418Z DEBUG: fetchBranchCommits(): url=https://**redacted**@dev.azure.com/btwnz/BTW/_git/btw-software (repository=BTW/btw-software) 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6415245Z DEBUG: Git function thrown (repository=BTW/btw-software) 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6415455Z "err": { 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6415537Z "task": { 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6415810Z "commands": [ 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6415930Z "ls-remote", 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6416027Z "--heads", 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6416163Z "https://**redacted**@dev.azure.com/btwnz/BTW/_git/btw-software" 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6416251Z ], 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6416336Z "format": "utf-8", 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6416417Z "parser": "[function]" 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6416490Z }, 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6416649Z "message": "fatal: could not read Password for 'https://**redacted**@dev.azure.com': No such device or address\n" 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6416750Z } 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6416912Z Error: fatal: could not read Password for 'https://**redacted**@dev.azure.com': No such device or address 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6417012Z 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6417211Z at Object.action (file:///home/azure-devops-agent/devops-agent/_work/2/s/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/plugins/error-detection.plugin.ts:42:29) 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6417453Z at PluginStore.exec (file:///home/azure-devops-agent/devops-agent/_work/2/s/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/plugins/plugin-store.ts:54:29) 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6417681Z at file:///home/azure-devops-agent/devops-agent/_work/2/s/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/runners/git-executor-chain.ts:123:42 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6417805Z at new Promise () 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6418015Z at GitExecutorChain.handleTaskData (file:///home/azure-devops-agent/devops-agent/_work/2/s/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/runners/git-executor-chain.ts:120:14) 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6418271Z at GitExecutorChain.attemptRemoteTask (file:///home/azure-devops-agent/devops-agent/_work/2/s/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/runners/git-executor-chain.ts:96:40) 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6418429Z at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:104:5) 2026-06-18T02:28:45.6418819Z at GitExecutorChain.attemptTask (file:///home/azure-devops-agent/devops-agent/_work/2/s/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/runners/git-executor-chain.ts:61:18) ```