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

Though there are many answers, myself facing the repeated issue when username or password has special characters in it.

URL encode your username and password for git, then use it as part of URL itself (when there is no security concern).

Say, URL encoded value of username

'user+1' is user%2B1

and URL encoded value of password

'Welcome@1234' is Welcome%401234

Then your GIT Clone URL would look like,

git clone https://user%2B1:Welcome%401234@actual-git-url-for-the-repo works perfectly, whereas,

git clone https://user+1:Welcome@1234@actual-git-url-for-the-repo gives you 403 errors

Hope this helps.

Just in case, want to URL encode online: https://www.urlencoder.org/