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

The gitlab has a lot of tokens Private token Personal Access Token CI CD running token I tested only the Personal Access Token using GitLab Community Edition 10 1 2 the example git clone https gitlab-ci-token Personal Access Tokens gitlab com username myrepo git git clone https oauth2 Personal Access Tokens gitlab com username myrepo git or using username and password git clone https username password gitlab com username myrepo git or by input your password git clone https username gitlab com username myrepo git But the private token seems can not work

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

Currently the only way I ve found is with Deploy Tokens

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

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

many answers above are close but they get username syntax for deploy tokens incorrect There are other types of tokens but the deploy token is what gitlab offers circa 2020 at least per repo to allow customized access including read-only from a repository or group find the settings -- gt repository -- gt deploy tokens Create a new one A username and token field are created The username is NOT a fixed value by default it s unique to this token git clone https lt your deploy token username gt lt the token gt gitlab com your repo path git tested on gitlab com public free account

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

To make my future me happy RTFM - don t use the gitlab-ci-token at all but the netrc file There are a couple of important points echo -e machine gitlab com nlogin gitlab-ci-token npassword CI JOB TOKEN gt netrc Don t forget to replace gitlab com by your URL Don t try to be smart and create the netrc file directly - gitlab will not replace the CI JOB TOKEN within the file Use https gitlab com whatever foobar com - not ssh git foobar not git ssh not git https You also don t need any CI-TOKEN stuff in the URL Make sure you can git clone url from step 4 Background I got fatal could not read Username for https gitlab mycompany com No such device or address when I tried to make Ansible Gitlab Docker work as I imagine it Now it works

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

[gitlab] Using GitLab token to clone without authentication

Customising the URL is not needed. Just use a git configuration for gitlab tokens such as

git config --global gitlab.accesstoken {TOKEN_VALUE}

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