I want to clone GitLab repository without prompt for my automation script by using my private token from my GitLab account Can someone provide me a sample I know I can do so with user and password git clone https quot user quot quot password quot quot gitlaburl and I know it is possible with ssh key But both options are insufficient

As of 8 12 cloning using HTTPS runner token is not supported anymore as mentioned here In 8 12 we improved build permissions Being able to clone project using runners token it is no supported from now on it was actually working by coincidence and was never a fully fledged feature so we changed that in 8 12 You should use build token instead This is widely documented here - https docs gitlab com ce user project new ci build permissions model html

Customising the URL is not needed Just use a git configuration for gitlab tokens such as git config --global gitlab accesstoken TOKEN VALUE extended description here

Use the token instead of the password the token needs to have api scope for clone to be allowed git clone https username token gitlab com user repo git Tested against 11 0 0-ee

I went SSH using the per project deploy keys setting read only

You can use the runners token for CI CD Pipelines of your GitLab repo git clone https gitlab-ci-token lt runners token gt git example com myuser myrepo git Where lt runners token gt can be obtained from git example com myuser myrepo pipelines settings or by clicking on the Settings icon - gt CI CD Pipeline and look for Runners Token on the page Screenshot of the runners token location

You can do it like this git clone https gitlab-ci-token lt private token gt git example com myuser myrepo git

Inside a GitLab CI pipeline the CI JOB TOKEN environment variable works for me git clone https gitlab-ci-token CI JOB TOKEN gitlab com Source Gitlab Docs BTW setting this variable in gitlab-ci yml helps to debug errors variables CI DEBUG TRACE true

One possible way is using a deploy token https docs gitlab com ee user project deploy tokens After creating the token use git clone https lt username gt lt deploy token gt gitlab example com tanuki awesome project git as mentioned in the link above

Currently the only way I ve found is with Deploy Tokens

[gitlab] Using GitLab token to clone without authentication

If you already has a repository and just changed the way you do authentication to MFA, u can change your remote origin HTTP URI to use your new api token as follows:

git remote set-url origin https://oauth2:TOKEN@ANY_GIT_PROVIDER_DOMAIN/YOUR_PROJECT/YOUR_REPO.git

And you wont need to re-clone the repository at all.

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