# Obscured (overwritten) second prompt for credentials during clone operation 1 messages from 2025-04-24 to 2025-04-24. Participants: Tom S. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/63344 ## Tom S, 2025-04-24 22:13 Subject: Obscured (overwritten) second prompt for credentials during clone operation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/SA1PR16MB613444332129B96B51EF1D27B9852%40SA1PR16MB6134.namprd16.prod.outlook.com ``` While cloning a repo through HTTPS from a locally-hosted GitLab server, I was prompted a second time for credentials, but the prompt was mostly obscured by other Git output. The only visible sign that a prompt was present was ".ocal':" on the line that starts with "Updating files". This repo uses Git LFS, and I suspect but do not know for a fact that the second prompt is related to pulling LFS content. By typing the username I was able to elicit the second prompt for a password, and it does work, but the first time through I missed this detail and the clone operation did not succeed. Assuming a second prompt is necessary, I would expect this second prompt for Username to appear on its own line without being overwritten by other Git output nor advancing the cursor to subsequent lines. $ git clone -c http.sslCAInfo=/.../.pem https://.local/sw/.git Cloning into ''... Username for 'https://.local': Password for 'https://@.local': remote: Enumerating objects: 179533, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (179533/179533), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (34949/34949), done. remote: Total 179533 (delta 144313), reused 179448 (delta 144269), pack-reused 0 (from 0) Receiving objects: 100% (179533/179533), 870.75 MiB | 13.79 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (144313/144313), done. Updating files: 100% (2881/2881), done.ocal': Updating files: 95% (2737/2881) Password for 'https://@.local': I observed this with Git 2.49.0 with Fedora 42 on x64 using the default Gnome Terminal plus tmux. Regards, Tom ```