# How can I append authentication with "git push" ? 7 messages from 2012-07-12 to 2012-07-16. Participants: J. Bakshi, Jeff King, Thiago Farina, Nick Douma, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31006 ## J. Bakshi, 2012-07-12 08:18 Subject: How can I append authentication with "git push" ? Message-ID: <20120712134844.2d1c4378@shiva.selfip.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20120712134844.2d1c4378%40shiva.selfip.org ``` 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 ``` ## Jeff King, 2012-07-12 09:40 Subject: Re: How can I append authentication with "git push" ? Message-ID: <20120712094040.GA5268@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20120712094040.GA5268%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <20120712134844.2d1c4378@shiva.selfip.org> ``` On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:48:44PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > Is there any option to add user-name and password with git push ? 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? > Or any repo wise configuration file where I can save the info, so that > it doesn't ask the credential before every 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 ``` ## Thiago Farina, 2012-07-12 15:04 Subject: Re: How can I append authentication with "git push" ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CACnwZYfbbZJV--aaOVH%2Baf%2BHxibg7XWvb909kZYWgKXVHexfDw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20120712134844.2d1c4378@shiva.selfip.org> ``` On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:18 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > Or any repo wise configuration file where I can save the info, so that > it doesn't ask the credential before every push ? > 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). ``` ## Nick Douma, 2012-07-12 15:30 Subject: Re: How can I append authentication with "git push" ? Message-ID: <4FFEEDB3.5060003@nekoconeko.nl> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4FFEEDB3.5060003%40nekoconeko.nl In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, On 12-07-12 17:04, Thiago Farina wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:18 AM, J. Bakshi > wrote: >> Or any repo wise configuration file where I can save the info, so that >> it doesn't ask the credential before every push ? >> > 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). 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 ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2012-07-12 17:22 Subject: Re: How can I append authentication with "git push" ? Message-ID: <7vpq80c2t1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vpq80c2t1.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Thiago Farina writes: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:18 AM, J. Bakshi > wrote: >> Or any repo wise configuration file where I can save the info, so that >> it doesn't ask the credential before every push ? >> > 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). 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 ``` ## J. Bakshi, 2012-07-16 08:25 Subject: Re: How can I append authentication with "git push" ? Message-ID: <20120716135512.1a3ce06c@shiva.selfip.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20120716135512.1a3ce06c%40shiva.selfip.org In-Reply-To: <20120712134844.2d1c4378@shiva.selfip.org> ``` Any idea please ? On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:48:44 +0530 "J. Bakshi" wrote: > > 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 ``` ## Jeff King, 2012-07-16 11:11 Subject: Re: How can I append authentication with "git push" ? Message-ID: <20120716111105.GA4962@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20120716111105.GA4962%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <20120716135512.1a3ce06c@shiva.selfip.org> ``` On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 01:55:12PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > Any idea please ? Did you miss the four responses here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201351 ? -Peff ```