Storing username and password in Git

git

When I do

git push

I get the command prompt like

Username for 'https://github.com':

then I enter my username manually like

Username for 'https://github.com': myusername

and then I hit Enter and I get prompt for my password

Password for 'https://myusername@github.com':

I want the username to be written automatically instead of manually having to type it all the time.

I tried doing it with xdotool but it didn't work out.

I have already done

git config --global user.name myusername
git config --global user.email myemail@gmail.com

but still it always asks for me to type manually

Best Answer

Actually what you did there is setting up the author information, just for the commits. You didn't store the credentials. credentials can be stored in 2 ways:

using the git credential functions: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-store
change the origin url to "https://username:password@github.com".
a third alternative is to use an ssh key (as @StephenKitt said). For github configuration, you can find all needed information in GitHub help page

Using SSH

The common approach for handling git authentication is to delegate it to SSH. Typically you set your SSH public key in the remote repository (e.g. on GitHub), and then you use that whenever you need to authenticate. You can use a key agent of course, either handled by your desktop environment or manually with ssh-agent and ssh-add.

To avoid having to specify the username, you can configure that in SSH too, in ~/.ssh/config; for example I have

Host git.opendaylight.org
  User skitt

and then I can clone using

git clone ssh://git.opendaylight.org:29418/aaa

(note the absence of a username there).

Using `gitcredentials`

If the SSH approach doesn't apply (e.g. you're using a repository accessed over HTTPS), git does have its own way of handling credentials, using gitcredentials (and typically git-credential-store). You specify your username using

git config credential.${remote}.username yourusername

and the credential helper using

git config credential.helper store

(specify --global if you want to use this setup everywhere).

Then the first time you access a repository, git will ask for your password, and it will be stored (by default in ~/.git-credentials). Subsequent accesses to the repository will use the stored password instead of asking you.

Change a directory name in a Github repository remotely, directly from local Linux Git

The fatal error message indicates you’re working from somewhere that’s not a clone of your git repository. So let’s start by cloning the git repository first:

git clone https://github.com/benqzq/ulcwe.git

Then enter it:

cd ulcwe

and rename the directory:

git mv local xyz

For the change to be shareable, you need to commit it:

git commit -m "Rename local to xyz"

Now you can push it to your remote git repository:

git push

and you’ll see the change in the GitHub interface.

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