Username and password in command for git push

Question

It s possible to clone down a git repository  specifying username and password in the command  Example   git clone https   username password myrepository biz file git  Is it is possible to also specify the username and password when pushing  So that  for example  running git push origin --all will then output asking for a password  I want this in one command    I am aware of the ability to set up keys and other solutions  but I want to know if there is a way to just keep using username and password with one command   I am running Git Bash on Windows 8 1

User · Accepted Answer

Yes  you can do  git push https   username password myrepository biz file git --all  in this case https   username password myrepository biz file git replace the origin in git push origin --all  To see more options for git push  try git help push

User · Answer

According to the Git documentation  the last argument of the git push command can be the repository that you want to push to       git push  --all   --mirror   --tags   -n   --dry-run   --receive-pack  lt git-receive-pack gt                 --repo  lt repository gt    -f   --force   --prune   -v   --verbose   -u   --set-upstream                 lt repository gt    lt refspec gt         And the repository parameter can be either a URL or a remote name   So you can specify username and password the same way as you do in your example of clone command

User · Answer

I used below format   git push https   username password myrepository biz file git --all   and if your password or username contain   replace it with  40

User · Answer

Git will not store the password when you use URLs like that  Instead  it will just store the username  so it only needs to prompt you for the password the next time  As explained in the manual  to store the password  you should use an external credential helper  For Windows  you can use the Windows Credential Store for Git  This helper is also included by default in GitHub for Windows   When using it  your password will automatically be remembered  so you only need to enter it once  So when you clone  you will be asked for your password  and then every further communication with the remote will not prompt you for your password again  Instead  the credential helper will provide Git with the authentication   This of course only works for authentication via https  for ssh access  git host com repository git  you use SSH keys and those you can remember using ssh-agent  or PuTTY   s pageant if you   re using plink

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It is possible but  before git 2 9 3  august 2016   a git push would print the full url used when pushing back to the cloned repo  That would include your username and password   But no more  See commit 68f3c07  20 Jul 2016   and commit 882d49c  14 Jul 2016  by Jeff King  peff    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 71076e1  08 Aug 2016        push  anonymize URL in status output      Commit 47abd85  fetch  Strip usernames from url s before storing them  2009-04-17  Git 1 6 4  taught fetch to anonymize URLs    The primary purpose there was to avoid sticking passwords in merge-commit messages  but as a side effect  we also avoid printing them to stderr       The push side does not have the merge-commit problem  but it probably should avoid printing them to stderr  We can reuse the same anonymizing function       Note that for this to come up  the credentials would have to appear either on the command line or in a git config file  neither of which is particularly secure    So people should be switching to using credential helpers instead  which   makes this problem go away        But that s no excuse not to improve the situation for people who for whatever reason end up using credentials embedded in the URL

User · Answer

For anyone having issues with passwords with special chars just omit the password and it will prompt you for it   git push https   YOUR GIT USERNAME github com YOUR GIT USERNAME yourGitFileName git

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