Git asks for username every time I push

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Whenever I try to push into my repo git asks for both username  amp  password    I have no problem in re-entering my password each time but the problem is in entering username  I use https to clone my repository   So  how can I configure git so that it doesn t asks for username on each git push   I am new to linux but IIRC in windows git push only asks for password

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The easiest way I found was with this command:

git config --global credential.https://github.com.username <your_username>

This works on a site by site basis and modifies your global git config.

To see the changes, use:

git config --global --edit

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The easiest way is to create a    netrc file with the following contents   machine github com login YOUR GITHUB USERNAME password YOUR GITHUB PASSWORD    as shown here   https   gist github com ahoward 2885020   You can even close up the permissions on this file so that no one can read your password by typing   chmod 600    netrc

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You can set your username for all repositories at a given site by putting something like the following in your Git configuration file   You ll want to change  https   example com  and  me  to the actual URL and your actual username    credential  https   example com       username   me    This is directly from  git help credentials

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I use to store my Git Repository Username and Password on Disk  So git doesn t ask for username and password every time while I push my code follow these commands to save credentials in the local storage   git config credential helper store or   git config --global credential helper store  From now on  Git will write credentials to the    git-credentials file for each URL context  when accessed for the first time  To view the content of this file  you can use the cat command as shown    cat     git-credentials

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To solve this problem  github recommends Connecting over HTTPS  Git s documentation discuss how to how to do exactly that using gitcredentials  Solution 1 Static configuration of usernames for a given authentication context  https   username  lt personal-access-tokens gt  repository-url com  You will find the details in the documentation  Solution 2 Use credential helpers to cache password  in memory for a short period of time   git config --global credential helper cache  Solution 3 Use credential helpers to store password  indefinitely on disk   git config --global credential helper  store --file    my-credentials   You can find where the credential will be saved  If not set explicitly with --file  in the documentation   If not set explicitly with --file  there are two files where git-credential-store will search for credentials in order of precedence     git-credentials User-specific credentials file   XDG CONFIG HOME git credentials  Second user-specific credentials file  If  XDG CONFIG HOME is not set or empty   HOME  config git credentials will be used  Any  credentials stored in this file will not be used if    git-credentials has a matching credential as well  It is a good idea not to create this file if you sometimes use older versions of Git that do not support it   P S  To address the concern   your password is going to be stored completely unencrypted   quot as is quot   at    git-credentials   You can always encrypt the file and decrypt it before using

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Edit  by  dk14 as suggested by moderators and comments   WARNING  If you use credential helper store from the answer  your password is going to be stored completely unencrypted   as is   at    git-credentials  Please consult the comments section below or the answers from the  Linked  section  especially if your employer has zero tolerance for security issues   Even though accepted  it doesn t answer the actual OP s question about omitting a username only  not password   For the readers with that exact problem  grawity s answer might come in handy     Original answer  by  Alexander Zhu    You can store your credentials using the following command    git config credential helper store   git push http   example com repo git Username   lt type your username gt  Password   lt type your password gt    Also I suggest you to read   git help credentials

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git config --global credential helper cache

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Add new SSH keys as described in this article on GitHub   If Git still asks you for username  amp  password  try changing https   github com  to git github com  in remote URL     git config remote origin url  https   github com dir repo git    git config remote origin url  git github com dir repo git

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ssh   key authentication is more reliable way than https   credential helper  You can configure to use SSH instead of HTTPS for all the repositories as follows   git config --global url ssh   git github com  insteadOf https   github com    url  lt base gt  insteadOf is documented here

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To avoid entering username  but still be prompted to enter a password  then you can simply clone your repository including the username   git clone user name example gitrepo com my repo git

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In addition to user701648 s answer  you can store your credentials in your home folder  global for all projects   instead of project folder using the following command    git config --global credential helper store   git push http   example com repo git Username   lt type your username gt  Password   lt type your password gt

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Only For Mac OS   for Windows and Linux please refer to Github s documentation link mentioned below   From Github Documentation  Documentation Link  Caching your GitHub password in Git   You need Git 1 7 10 or newer to use the osxkeychain credential helper      to check your Git version  git --version  to find out osxkeychain helper is already installed      git credential-osxkeychain   if you get following response then you have it already installed and ready to use on your mac       gt  Usage  git credential-osxkeychain  lt get store erase gt    if you don t get a response as shown above then you can install it running following command      git credential-osxkeychain  to tell git to globally use osxkeychain for git credentials       git config --global credential helper osxkeychain   It will prompt once before it saves credentials to the keychain

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I faced this issue today  If you are facing this issue in November 2020 then you need to update your git version  I received an email telling me about this  Here is what exactly was the email by github team   We have detected that you recently attempted to authenticate to GitHub using an older version of Git for Windows  GitHub has changed how users authenticate when using Git for Windows  and now requires the use of a web browser to authenticate to GitHub  To be able to login via web browser  users need to update to the latest version of Git for Windows  You can download the latest version at   https   gitforwindows org   If you cannot update Git for Windows to the latest version please see the following link for more information and suggested workarounds   https   aka ms gcmcore-githubauthchanges  If you have any questions about these changes or require any assistance  please reach out to GitHub Support and we   ll be happy to assist further   https   support github com contact  Thanks  The GitHub Team

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git config credential helper store   git push push https   github com xxx git Then enter your user name and password  Done

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Quick method get url of your git when inside working dir   git config remote origin url  then   git config credential helper store  git push  quot url of your git quot   will ask username and password last one time done

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You can accomplish this in the  git config file of your local repository  This file contains a section called  remote  with an entry called  url   The  url  entry should contains the https link of repository you re talking about   When you prefix the host  url  with your username  git shouldn t be asking for your username anymore  Here s an example   url   https   username repository-url com

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Permanently authenticating with Git repositories Run following command to enable credential caching    git config credential helper store   git push https   github com repo git  Username for  https   github com    lt USERNAME gt  Password for  https   USERNAME github com    lt PASSWORD gt    Use should also specify caching expire git config --global credential helper  quot cache --timeout 7200 quot   After enabling credential caching  it will be cached for 7200 seconds  2 hour    Read credentials Docs   git help credentials

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This occurs when one downloads using HTTPS rather than the SSH easiet way which I implemented was  I pushed everything as I made a few changes once wherein it asked for the username and password  then I removed the directory from my machine and git clone SSH address  It was solved  Just clone it using SSH rather than HTTP and it won t ask for username or password  Also having two-factor authentication creates the problem even when you download using SSH so disabling it solves the issue

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The proper way to solve it is to change the http to ssh  You can use this git remote rm origin to remove your remote repo  And then you can add it again with the ssh sintax  which you can copy from github   git remote add origin git github com username reponame git   Check this article  https   www freecodecamp org news how-to-fix-git-always-asking-for-user-credentials

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If you are using https instead of ssh  you can edit  url  in  git config as user701648 says  but if you want you can add also the password   url   https   username password repository-url com

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Changing the cloned repo works   git remote set-url origin git github com gitusername projectname git   Using cached credentials works  and setting the timeout period makes things less annoying  If you use the Windows credential helper  that should be the easiest method  especially if SSH is blocked

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Make sure that you are using SSH instead of http  Check this SO answer

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To set the credentials for the entire day that is 24 hours  git config --global credential helper  cache --timeout 86400   Else for 1 hour replace the 86400 secs to 3600  OR all configuration options for the  cache  authentication helper  git help credential-cache

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If you use SSH version  you will not have any problems with passwords Only one time you generate SSH key  to tell git  that this pc will work with this github account and never ask me again about any access  for this pc    How To Generate SSH for Github

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For me this issue appeared when I enabled 2-Factor Authentication  2FA  for my account  I would enter correct credentials and authentication would still fail because of course the terminal authentication does not ask for authentication code   I simply had to disable 2FA for my account  Upon doing that I had to enter my credentials just one time during git push  They weren t required from then on

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You can just run   git config --global credential helper wincred   after installing and logging into GIT for windows in your system

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When I only git pull  git pull origin xxx  git asks for both username  amp  password   git config credential helper store   it works

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