How to enter command with password for git pull?

I want to do this command in one line:

git pull && [my passphrase] 

How to do it?

10 Answers

This is not exactly what you asked for, but for http(s):

• you can put the password in .netrc file (_netrc on windows). From there it would be picked up automatically. It would go to your home folder with 600 permissions.
• you could also just clone the repo with but that's not really recommended as it would show your user/pass in a lot of places...
• a new option is to use the credential helper. Note that credentials would be stored in clear text in your local config using standard credential helper. credential-helper with wincred can be also used on windows.

Usage examples for credential helper

• git config credential.helper store - stores the credentials indefinitely.
• git config credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'- stores for 60 minutes

For ssh-based access, you'd use ssh agent that will provide the ssh key when needed. This would require generating keys on your computer, storing the public key on the remote server and adding the private key to relevant keystore.

I found one way to supply credentials for a https connection on the command line. You just need to specify the complete URL to git pull and include the credentials there:

git pull 

You do not need to have the repository cloned with the credentials before, this means your credentials don't end up in .git/config. (But make sure your shell doesn't betray you and stores the command line in a history file.)

Doesn't answer the question directly, but I found this question when searching for a way to, basically, not re-enter the password every single time I pull on a remote server.

Well, git allows you to cache your credentials for a finite amount of time. It's customizable in git config and this page explains it very well:

In a terminal, run:

$ git config --global credential.helper cache # Set git to use the credential memory cache 

To customize the cache timeout, you can do:

$ git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600' # Set the cache to timeout after 1 hour (setting is in seconds) 

Your credentials will then be stored in-memory for the requested amount of time.

Below cmd will work if we dont have @ in password: git pull If you have @ in password then replace it by %40 as shown below: git pull

Using the credentials helper command-line option:

git -c credential.helper='!f() { echo "password=mysecretpassword"; }; f' fetch origin 

I just went through this so supplying my answer as I ended up using Gitlab access tokens although some may need Github access tokens

I would prefer to use SSH but there is a gitlab bug preventing that. Putting my password in .netrc or the URL is not ideal. Credential manager needs to be restarted on server reboot which is not ideal.

Hence I opted for an access token which can be used like so: git clone

The access token is stored with the url so this is not secure but it is more secure than using username:password since an access token can be restricted to certain operations and can be revoked easily.

Once it's cloned down (or the URL is manually updated) all your git requests will use the access token since it's stored in the URL.

These commands may be helpful if you wish to update a repo you've already cloned:

git remote show origin git remote remove origin git remote add origin 

Edit: Be sure to check the comments below. I added 2 important notes.

You can just use username no need to use password since password will be prompted in git bash.

git pull 

or

 git pull 

Note that the way the git credential helper "store" will store the unencrypted passwords changes with Git 2.5+ (Q2 2014).
See commit 17c7f4d by Junio C Hamano (gitster)

credential-xdg

Tweak the sample "store" backend of the credential helper to honor XDG configuration file locations when specified.

The doc now say:

If not specified:

• credentials will be searched for from ~/.git-credentials and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/credentials, and
• credentials will be written to ~/.git-credentials if it exists, or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/credentials if it exists and the former does not.

I did not find the answer to my question after searching Google & stackoverflow for a while so I would like to share my solution here.

git config --global credential.helper "/bin/bash /git_creds.sh" echo '#!/bin/bash' > /git_creds.sh echo "sleep 1" >> /git_creds.sh echo "echo username=$SERVICE_USER" >> /git_creds.sh echo "echo password=$SERVICE_PASS" >> /git_creds.sh # to test it git clone 

I did it for Windows too. Full answer here

If you are looking to do this in a CI/CD script on Gitlab (gitlab-ci.yml). You could use

git pull $CI_REPOSITORY_URL 

which will translate to something like:

git pull 

And I'm pretty sure the token it uses is a ephemeral/per job token - so the security hole with this method is greatly reduced.