Prevent re-entering of password in git pull – Code Example

To prevent re-entering of password in git pull or git push, you can edit your .git/config file in the project and update the remote url value. Add user token before hostname github.com.

Solution

1. Generate user token for your project on Github.com.

2. Create expiry of this token according to your use case. You can create a Never Expire token but it’s better to keep a token for 30 days as security point of view.

3. Open .git/config file in your project. The content will look something like this –

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = false
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
	ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
	url = https://github.com/akamittal/myrepo.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "main"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/main
[branch "gh-pages"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/gh-pages

4. Check the highlighted line in above block. It’s the remote url of the repository. Before the hostname (github.com) add your newly created user token appended by @. Like this –

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = false
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
	ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
	url = https://your_user_token@github.com/akamittal/myrepo.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "main"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/main
[branch "gh-pages"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/gh-pages

5. Save the file and now you won’t need to enter password every time you git push or git pull.