[git] How to enter command with password for git pull?

I want to do this command in one line:

git pull && [my passphrase]

How to do it?

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.

Below cmd will work if we dont have @ in password: git pull https://username:pass@[email protected]/my/repository If you have @ in password then replace it by %40 as shown below: git pull https://username:pass%[email protected]/my/repository

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.

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:[email protected]/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.)

You can just use username no need to use password since password will be prompted in git bash.

git pull https://[email protected]/username/myrepo

Using the credentials helper command-line option:

git -c credential.helper='!f() { echo "password=mysecretpassword"; }; f' fetch origin

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

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.