Git push requires username and password

Question

I cloned a git repository from my Github account to my PC.

I want to work with both my PC and laptop, but with one Github account.

When I try to push to or pull from Github using my PC, it requires username and password, but not when using the laptop!

I don't want to type my username and password every time I interact with origin. What I am missing here?

Answer 1

For the uninitiated who are confused by the previous answers, you can do:

git remote -v

which will respond something like

origin  https://[e-mail]/yourname/yourrepo.git (fetch)
origin  https://[e-mail]/yourname/yourrepo.git (push)

then you can run the command many other have suggested, but now you know yourname and yourrepo from above, so you can just cut and paste yourname/yourrepo.git from above into

git remote set-url origin [e-mail]:yourname/yourrepo.git

Answer 2

Here's another option:

Instead of writing

git push origin HEAD

You could write:

git push https://user:[e-mail]/path HEAD

Obviously with most shells this will result in password getting cached in history, so keep that in mind.

Answer 3

Source: Set Up Git

The following command will save your password in memory for sometime.
(For git 1.7.10 or newer.)

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

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

Answer 4

What worked for me was to edit .git/config and use

[remote "origin"]
        url = https://<login>:<password>@gitlab.com(...).git

It goes without saying that this is an insecure way of storing your password but there are environments/cases where this may not be a problem.

Answer 5

I just came across the same problem, and the simplest solution I found was to use SSH URL instead of HTTPS one:

ssh://[e-mail]/username/repo.git

And not this:

https://github.com/username/repo.git

You can now validate with just the SSH Key instead of the username and password.

Answer 6

This is what worked for me:

git remote set-url origin https://[e-mail]/username/reponame.git

Example:

git remote set-url origin https://[e-mail]/jsmith/master.git