Cloning a private Github repo

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I have a private repository on Github for a project I m working on   Until now I had only worked on my home desktop  but I just bought a laptop  and am trying to set it up so that I can work on the project from either computer  and push   pull changes     I added a new SSH key to my Github account for the laptop  and was successful in cloning and making changes to a public test repo that I set up   However  I couldn t clone the private repo   Is there anything special I need to do in the command line in order to clone a private repo   Do I need to set up a new GitHub account for my laptop and set myself up as a collaborator   The command I used was git clone git   github com myusername reponame git

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This worked for me  git clone https   username github com username repo name

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Add your desktop ssh public key in github   https   github com settings keys  You can clone the repo without any password

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This worked for me on mac git clone https   username github com username repo name

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In response to mac s answer  you can get your SSH clone URL on your github repo page  by clicking SSH on You can clone with HTTPS  SSH  or Subversion  and copy the URL

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For me the solution was   git clone https   myusername restoftherepolink git   Here you need to be the owner of the repo but if you aren t then it will go as  git clone https   myusername github com ownersusername repo name git   If you have 2FA enabled then    Go to the settings from the profile icon in top right or visit https   github com settings profile Go to the bottom tab or go to https   github com settings tokens Open last tab here Personal tokens  And generate a token Copy the token and run git clone https   myusername restoftherepolink git   When prompted for password put that token in here

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If you want to achieve it in Dockerfile  below lines helps   ARG git personal token RUN git config --global url  https     git personal token   github com   insteadOf  https   github com   RUN git clone https   github com your project git  project   Then we can build with below argument   docker build --build-arg git personal token  your token

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I needed a non-interactive method for cloning a private repo     Inspired by this issue  https   github com github hub issues 1644  Step 1     Create a personal access token in the github developer settings  https   github com settings tokens  Step 2     git clone https    token x-oauth-basic github com  username  repo git

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I think it also worth to mention that in case the SSH protocol can not be used for some reason and modifying a private repository http s  URL to provide basic authentication credentials is not an option either  there s an alternative as well  The basic authentication header can be configured using http extraHeader git-config option  git config --global --unset-all  quot http https   github com  extraheader quot  git config --global --add  quot http https   github com  extraheader quot               quot AUTHORIZATION  Basic   base64  lt  lt  lt   access-token-string  x-oauth-basic  quot   Where  access-token-string  placeholder should be replaced  including square braces  with a generated real token value  You can read more about access tokens here and here  If the configuration has been applied properly then the configured AUTHORIZATION header will be included in each HTTPS request to the github com IP address accessed by git command

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git clone https   myusername mygithubpassword github com myusername project git   When you are trying to use private repo from the repo at the time you need to pass username and password for that

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This worked for me    git clone https   username password github com username repo name git

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I have met this issue several times and every time I landed on this page  tried every thing and failed   It s because I have 2FA enabled     According to https   help github com articles which-remote-url-should-i-use  when-2fa-is-enabled     If you have enabled  two-factor authentication  or if you are accessing an organization that uses  SAML single sign-on  you must  provide a personal access token  instead of entering your password for HTTPS Git     Follow this link and create an access token git clone https   github com username repo name git  The default git repo link is good enough   Enter your username and use the access token as password       Update    If you don t mind exposing your access token in the command line  you can also paste the access token as username then hit enter enter  no need for password   Hate copy amp pasting the access token over and over again  Use git config credential helper store  don t do this on machine you don t trust

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If the newly used computer has different credentials running this command      git clone https   github com username reponame git    directly will not work  Git will attempt to use the stored credentials and will not prompt you for the username and the password  Since the credentials mismatch  git will output Repository not found and the clone operation fails  The way I solved it was by deleting the old credentials  since I don t use them anymore  and ran the the above mentioned command again and entered the required username and password and cloned the private repo

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When cloning from private repos with 2FA enable  there is a simple steps which you need to follow   Go to your Git account Go to Settings-  Developer Settings- Personal Access Token Click on Generate new token Create a token with title you want and with the functionalities When you are cloning the private repo  by using git clone repoName  after entering your user name  give personal access token as the password       Follow same steps when you get Authentication failed error message for Private repo

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First make sure that you have a SSH key or generate one at  https   help github com articles generating-ssh-keys   Once you have your key  you have to add it to your github account at  https   github com settings ssh  For Windows users it s useful to run git bash as an administrator   Now the cloning should work for private repositories  repo   without having to put your username and password

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Cloning Private Repository using HTTPS in Year 2020   If maintainer of repository has given Developer access to you on his private library  you need to first login to https   gitlab com users sign in with user for which you have received invitation you will be prompted to change your password once you change your password then you can successfully clone repository  pull and push changes to it

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I have a company  private  account and 2-Factor-Authentication enabled  so I had to combine a few posts to make it work as below   Jotting down so it may be useful to someone with the same situation   Initially it was the Fatal Error   fatal  repository  https      remote  Repository not found  fatal  repository  https    Installed the credential manager and updated GIT as mentioned here  https   codeshare co uk blog how-to-solve-the-github-error-fatal-httprequestexception-encountered   That did not solve the problem as the issue moved to the below when I tried using the clone command as follows     git clone https    lt username gt   lt password gt  github com  lt ORG NAME gt   lt PROJECT-NAME gt  git  remote  Invalid username or password  fatal  Authentication failed for  https      My password had   symbol in it and for some reason GIT command line   GIT Bash did not like it  I can see this on the error returned text did not have the   symbol in it    fatal  Authentication failed for  https    lt username gt   lt password-missing- -symbol gt  github com  lt ORG NAME gt   lt PROJECT-NAME gt  git    I had to reference this site  https   git-scm com book en v2 Git-Tools-Credential-Storage     Please note  If an incorrect password is stored for your account in   Windows Credential Manager it will also add to the problem  I   removed the github credential stored this way before moving to the step below      git config --global credential helper cache   git clone https    lt username gt   lt password gt  github com  lt ORG NAME gt   lt PROJECT-NAME gt  git   Now the Windows Credential manager popped-up  I typed my username and password in the text-boxes  This accepted my password that had the   symbol  and prompted me for a 2-Factor Authentication code  I typed in the authentication code from Google Authenticator  and the clone started perfectly

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In addition to MK Yung s answer  make sure you add the public key for wherever you re deploying to the deploy keys for the repo  if you don t want to receive a 403 Forbidden response

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As everyone aware about the process of cloning  I would like to add few more things here  Don t worry about special character or writing  quot   quot  as  quot  40 quot  see character encoding   git clone https   username password github com user repo     This line can do the job  Suppose if I have a password containing special character   I don t know what to replace for     in my password  What if I want to use other temporary password other than my original password  To solve this issue I encourage to use GitHub Developer option to generate Access token  I believe Access token is secure and you wont find any special character  creating-a-personal-access-token Now I will write the below code to access my repository    git clone https   username token github com user repo  I am just replacing my original password with Access-token  Now I am not worried if some one see my access credential   I can regenerate the token when ever I feel  Make sure you have checked repo Full control of private repositories

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Using Git for Windows it is easier to use HTTPS url   Open a git shell then git clone https   github com user repo  Enter username and password when prompted  No need to setup a SSH key

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In case you have two-factor authentication enabled  make sure that you create a new access token and not regenerate an old one  That didn t seem to work in my case

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1  try running command with username and password in below format  git clone https   your username your password github com username reponame git   now problem as others have mentioned here is when we have special character in our password  In Javascript use below code to convert password with special characters to UTF-8 encoding   console log encodeURIComponent  password  123       now use this generated password instead of one with special characters and run command   Hope this solve issue

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If you are sure that you don t have 2FA enabled  you have permission to access the repo  and the repo exists  it s possible that your git github com is logged in with another account   to check that you can do  ssh -T git github com   If it shows another account  to resolve this issue    ssh-add -D  ssh-add    ssh your rsa  ssh -T git github com  git clone git github com  lt owner name gt   lt repo name gt  git

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Private clone URLs take the form git github com username repo git - perhaps you needed to use git  rather than git      git    URLs are read only  and it looks like private repos do not allow this form of access

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I was using Android Studio to clone the project from GitHub private repository and two-factor authentication  2FA   I created a personal token as made in lzl124631x s answer  Then I cloned the repo using an url like this  https   YourGitHubUsername YourGeneratedPersonalToken github com YourRepoPath git

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