How can I append authentication with "git push" ?

Dear list,

Is there any option to add user-name and password with git push ? Or any repo wise configuration file where I can save the info, so that it doesn't ask the credential before every push ?

Thanks

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:48:44PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:

The username can go in the URL. For example:

  git push user@host:repo.git

for ssh, or:

  git push https://user@host/repo.git

for http.

For ssh, you can't specify a password automatically, but you should look into using key authentication (which can then be cached by ssh-agent). For http, you can put the password in the URL, but there are some security implications (like the fact that your password will be cleartext on disk, and visible in the process list to other users on the system).

What protocol are you using to push?

Older versions of git can read from .netrc, but I would not recommend that, as it involves storing the password in plaintext on disk.

Newer versions of git (v1.7.9 and up) support "credential helpers" which will read from a password wallet or other secure storage provided by the OS. There is a helper for OS X Keychain in contrib/, and somebody has been working on one for Windows. What platform are you using?

-Peff

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:18 AM, J. Bakshi <joydeep.bakshi@infoservices.in> wrote:

I'd like to know how to do that too.

It's a pain to have to type username and password every time I need to push to github. (Linux here btw).

Hi,

On 12-07-12 17:04, Thiago Farina wrote:

If you're specifically looking at GitHub and HTTP auth, take a look at the hub tool:

https://github.com/defunkt/hub

Kind regards,

Nick Douma

Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> writes:

I never type either when pushing to github, and I've been pushing there at least twice a day for quite some time (Linux here btw).

I have these in .git/config:

        [remote "github2"]
                url = https://github.com/git/git
                fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/github2/*
                pushurl = github.com:git/git.git
                push = refs/heads/maint:refs/heads/maint
                push = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master
                push = refs/heads/next:refs/heads/next
                push = +refs/heads/pu:refs/heads/pu

        [remote "github"]
                url = https://github.com/gitster/git
                pushurl = github.com:gitster/git.git
                mirror

and then this in $HOME/.ssh/config:

        Host github.com
                User git
                IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github

Any idea please ?

On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:48:44 +0530 "J. Bakshi" <joydeep.bakshi@infoservices.in> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 01:55:12PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:

Did you miss the four responses here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201351

?

-Peff