Git pull command from different user

Question

I am working with my friend on a project the code of which is on Git  If I need to pull the changes from my friend s machine  can I pull it from my username password using the following command without any issue   git pull https   myusername github com abc theproject git

User · Answer

Was looking for the solution of a similar problem. Thanks to the answer provided by Davlet and Cupcake I was able to solve my problem.

Posting this answer here since I think this is the intended question

So I guess generally the problem that people like me face is what to do when a repo is cloned by another user on a server and that user is no longer associated with the repo.

How to pull from the repo without using the credentials of the old user ?

You edit the .git/config file of your repo.

and change

url = https://<old-username>@github.com/abc/repo.git/

to

url = https://<new-username>@github.com/abc/repo.git/

After saving the changes, from now onwards git pull will pull data while using credentials of the new user.

I hope this helps anyone with a similar problem

User · Answer

This command will help to pull from the repository as the different user   git pull https   myusername github com projectfolder projectname git master   It is a workaround  when you are using same machine that someone else used before you  and had saved credentials

User · Answer

Your question is a little unclear  but if what you re doing is trying to get your friend s latest changes  then typically what your friend needs to do is to push those changes up to a remote repo  like one hosted on GitHub   and then you fetch or pull those changes from the remote    Your friend pushes his changes to GitHub   git push origin  lt branch gt   Clone the remote repository if you haven t already   git clone https   myusername github com abc theproject git  Fetch or pull your friend s changes  unnecessary if you just cloned in step  2 above    git fetch origin git merge origin  lt branch gt    Note that git pull is the same as doing the two steps above   git pull origin  lt branch gt     See Also   Pro Git  sect  2 5 Git Basics - Working with Remotes - Fetching and Pulling from Your Remotes Official documentation for git pull

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