Git clone with user and password

Question

I'm using Git on Windows with LDAP. No issue so far.

When I'm cloning my remote repository I call:

git clone http://user@host.com/name/.git and I got a prompt for password

This is working. But now I will run a script and clone without password prompt.

How can I do this?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Answer 1 · 2011-05-12 15:20:29Z

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Put it in the URL.

http://user:password@host.com/name/.git

answered May 12 '11 at 15:20

	This is what I tried, but this was not working. SYSTEM answers: sh.exe: event not found – Klaus Meier May 16 '11 at 6:51
	That's because your shell is consuming the `!` in your password. Escape or encode it. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 16 '11 at 6:55
	is there an option to store the password in a file like on Star Team stcmd.exe co -epwdfile "pw.txt" -p "$user:@host" – Klaus Meier May 16 '11 at 7:17
	You can set the `core.askpass` option to a program that will output the password on stdout, but nothing built-in. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 16 '11 at 7:20
	I found an escape character for @ -> %40 for example but non for ! – Klaus Meier May 16 '11 at 7:42

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