diff --git a/app/react/portainer/gitops/queries/useCheckRepo.ts b/app/react/portainer/gitops/queries/useCheckRepo.ts
index 9a64bb1ae..3486c03b2 100644
--- a/app/react/portainer/gitops/queries/useCheckRepo.ts
+++ b/app/react/portainer/gitops/queries/useCheckRepo.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export async function checkRepo(
       const { creds = {} } = options;
       // If no credentials were provided alter error from git to indicate repository is not found or is private
       if (
-        !(creds.username && creds.password) &&
+        (!(creds.username && creds.password) || !creds.gitCredentialId) &&
         details ===
           'authentication failed, please ensure that the git credentials are correct'
       ) {
diff --git a/app/react/portainer/gitops/utils.ts b/app/react/portainer/gitops/utils.ts
index 2b5157890..654dd1755 100644
--- a/app/react/portainer/gitops/utils.ts
+++ b/app/react/portainer/gitops/utils.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ export function getAuthentication(
     | 'RepositoryGitCredentialID'
   >
 ) {
+  if (!model.RepositoryAuthentication) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
   if (model.RepositoryGitCredentialID) {
     return { gitCredentialId: model.RepositoryGitCredentialID };
   }
diff --git a/go.work.sum b/go.work.sum
index 4a34d0613..b5e028f6d 100644
--- a/go.work.sum
+++ b/go.work.sum
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell v1.1.1 h1:WEQqlqaGbrPkxLJWfBwQmfEAE1Z7ONdDLqrN38tNFfI=
 github.com/PuerkitoBio/urlesc v0.0.0-20170810143723-de5bf2ad4578 h1:d+Bc7a5rLufV/sSk/8dngufqelfh6jnri85riMAaF/M=
+github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.0.5 h1:sjZBwGj9Jlw33ImPtvFviGYvseOtDM7hkSKB7+Tv3SM=