How do I provide a username and password when running “git clone git@remote.git”?

Question

I know how to provide a username and password to an HTTPS request like this:

git clone https://username:password@remote

But I\'d like to kn

Answer 1

Based on Michael Scharf's comment:

You can leave out the password so that it won't be logged in your Bash history file:

git clone https://username@github.com/username/repository.git

It will prompt you for your password.

Alternatively, you may use:

git clone https://username:password@github.com/username/repository.git

This way worked for me from a GitHub repository.