To connect to a Git repository with authentication over HTTP(S), every time it needs to set a username and password.
You can configure Git to remember a username and password by storing them in a remote URL or by using Git credential helper.
In this article i am showing how to clone Git repository by setting a username and password on the command line, how to save a username and password in Git credentials storage and how to configure different usernames and passwords for different repositories on the same Git server.
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Warning: Your Git credentials will be saved in a plaintext format in the files .git/config or ~/.git-credentials, depending on the method you choose.
Set Username and Password in Remote URL
To save credentials you can clone Git repository by setting a username and password on the command line:
$ git clone https://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@github.com/path/to/repo.git
The username and password will be stored in .git/config file as a part of the remote repository URL.
If you have already cloned a repository without setting username and password on the command line, you can always update the remote URL by running the following command:
$ git remote set-url origin https://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@github.com/path/to/repo.git
Save Username and Password in Git Credentials Storage
Run the following command to enable credentials storage in your Git repository:
$ git config credential.helper store
To enable credentials storage globally, run:
$ git config --global credential.helper store
When credentials storage is enabled, the first time you pull or push from the remote Git repository, you will be asked for a username and password, and they will be saved in ~/.git-credentials file.
During the next communications with the remote Git repository you won’t have to provide the username and password.
Each credential in ~/.git-credentials file is stored on its own line as a URL like:
https://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@github.com
Config Username and Password for Different Repositories
To be able to configure usernames and passwords for different Git repositories on the same Git server you can enable the useHttpPath option.
By default, Git does not consider the “path” component of an http URL to be worth matching via external helpers. This means that a credential stored for
https://example.com/foo.gitwill also be used forhttps://example.com/bar.git. If you do want to distinguish these cases, setuseHttpPathoption to true (source)
Run the following commands to configure Git credentials storage and separate credentials for different repositories on github.com:
$ git config --global credential.helper store $ git config --global credential.github.com.useHttpPath true
The usernames and passwords for different GitHub repositories will be stored in ~/.git-credentials file separately on their own lines:
https://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@github.com/path/to/repo1.git https://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@github.com/path/to/repo2.git
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Very clear and helpful post. Thank you
hey thanks for the information
simple and easy… Excelent
If the password contain @ , like my password is Brq@202@
Marcos, Use %40 in place of @ in your password (look up URL encoding for more details)
But what if my password contains %40 :thinking:
In javascript:
console.log(encodeURI(‘%40’));
gives you “%2540”
Dude oh ma god thank you!
This doesn’t work at all :
$ git clone https://:@github.com/path/to/repo.git
doesn’t work if your pw also has an @ in it.
Using `useHttpPath`, the `.git-credentials` file has 4 entries. When attempting clone a repo, if it isn’t the first in the list, the authentication fails and git automatically deletes the first entry which makes the solution completely unusable.
Is this expected behaviour or a bug?
thanks
It doesn’t address the permission error I googled for;
ERROR: Permission to denied to
I did some work for a different group with a different user but now I get an error for that previous user when attempt git push with my original user, despite setting user.
$ git config user.name
$ git config user.email
$ git config –global user.name
$ git config –global user.email
forgot to mention my host OS is Centos 7.8
Really clear and helpful as mentioned by others!