How to enter command with password for git pull

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I want to do this command in one line    git pull  amp  amp   my passphrase    How to do it

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I did not find the answer to my question after searching Google & stackoverflow for a while so I would like to share my solution here.

git config --global credential.helper "/bin/bash /git_creds.sh"
echo '#!/bin/bash' > /git_creds.sh
echo "sleep 1" >> /git_creds.sh
echo "echo username=$SERVICE_USER" >> /git_creds.sh
echo "echo password=$SERVICE_PASS" >> /git_creds.sh

# to test it
git clone https://my-scm-provider.com/project.git

I did it for Windows too. Full answer here

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Note that the way the git credential helper  store  will store the unencrypted passwords changes with Git 2 5   Q2 2014   See commit 17c7f4d by Junio C Hamano  gitster      credential-xdg      Tweak the sample  store  backend of the credential helper to honor XDG configuration file locations when specified    The doc now say      If not specified          credentials will be searched for from    git-credentials and  XDG CONFIG HOME git credentials  and    credentials will be written to    git-credentials if it exists  or  XDG CONFIG HOME git credentials if it exists and the former does  not

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Below cmd will work if we dont have   in password  git pull https   username pass word mygithost com my repository If you have   in password then replace it by  40 as shown below  git pull https   username pass 40word mygithost com my repository

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If you are looking to do this in a CI CD script on Gitlab  gitlab-ci yml   You could use git pull  CI REPOSITORY URL  which will translate to something like  git pull https   gitlab-ci-token  MASKED  gitlab com gitlab-examples ci-debug-trace gi  And I m pretty sure the token it uses is a ephemeral per job token - so the security hole with this method is greatly reduced

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I found one way to supply credentials for a https connection on the command line  You just need to specify the complete URL to git pull and include the credentials there   git pull https   username password mygithost com my repository   You do not need to have the repository cloned with the credentials before  this means your credentials don t end up in  git config   But make sure your shell doesn t betray you and stores the command line in a history file

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You can just use username no need to use password since password will be prompted in git bash  git pull https   username github com username myrepo

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This is not exactly what you asked for  but for http s     you can put the password in  netrc file   netrc on windows   From there it would be picked up automatically  It would go to your home folder with 600 permissions  you could also just clone the repo with https   user pass domain repo but that s not really recommended as it would show your user pass in a lot of places    a new option is to use the credential helper  Note that credentials would be stored in clear text in your local config using standard credential helper  credential-helper with wincred can be also used on windows    Usage examples for credential helper   git config credential helper store - stores the credentials indefinitely  git config credential helper  cache --timeout 3600 - stores for 60 minutes   For ssh-based access  you d use ssh agent that will provide the ssh key when needed  This would require generating keys on your computer  storing the public key on the remote server and adding the private key to relevant keystore

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Using the credentials helper command-line option  git -c credential helper   f     echo  quot password mysecretpassword quot      f  fetch origin

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Doesn t answer the question directly  but I found this question when searching for a way to  basically  not re-enter the password every single time I pull on a remote server   Well  git allows you to cache your credentials for a finite amount of time  It s customizable in git config and this page explains it very well   https   help github com articles caching-your-github-password-in-git  platform-linux  In a terminal  run     git config --global credential helper cache   Set git to use the credential memory cache   To customize the cache timeout  you can do     git config --global credential helper  cache --timeout 3600    Set the cache to timeout after 1 hour  setting is in seconds    Your credentials will then be stored in-memory for the requested amount of time

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