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In this article, we will learn how to clone an existing repository using username and password in Git.

In Git, we use the command git cloneto clone an existing remote repository to our local computer.

When we call git clonethe command, we can provide the username and password of the remote repository.

We will now illustrate this with an example.

Use Git git cloneto clone the repository using your username and password

Git provides git clonecommands to clone or create a copy of the required remote repository.

git cloneThe command clones the repository into the newly created directory. It also creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository.

It creates and checks out an initial branch derived from the currently active branch of the cloned repository.

When we execute git clonethe command, it will prompt to provide it with the credentials related to the remote repository i.e. username and password.

We can urlprovide the username and password along with git clonethe command in the remote repository itself.

The syntax of the command with httpthe protocol git cloneis git clone http[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/.

my_projectSuppose we have a repository named on Github and the username is johndoe.

We can git cloneclone the remote repository using the command as shown below.

$ git clone https://johndoe@github.com/johndoe/my_project.git

The above command will prompt for the password. Once you enter the correct password, the remote repository will be cloned.

We can also provide the password remotely url. We need to do as follows.

$ git clone https://johndoe:mypass123@github.com/johndoe/my_project.git

The username johndoeand password are provided in the remote mypass123using git clonethe command url.

If the username and password are correct, cloning of the remote repository will begin immediately.

However, this is insecure because the password will be in the shell (e.g. bash) history.