There are at least three ways to avoid typing your password repeatedly when using git. First solution requires to use KDE wallet, second solution doesn’t require additional tools and third is not the safest one.
First way – use KDE wallet
To store passwords in the KDE wallet you need to install ksshaskpass package:
$ sudo apt-get install ksshaskpass
Then configure git to use it:
$ git config –global core.askpass /usr/bin/ksshaskpass
Alternatively you can use GIT_ASKPASS environmental variable:
$ export GIT_ASKPASS=`which ksshaskpass`
Use secure protocol:
$ git clone –verbose https://[email protected]/git/personal_repo.git
Second way – temporarily store passwords in memory (recommended)
You can temporarily store passwords in memory by using credential helper:
$ git config credential.helper ‘cache’
By default credentials are stored for 15 minutes, to change number of seconds to cache credentials use timeout parameter (30 minutes in this example):
$ git config credential.helper ‘cache –timeout=1800’
Use secure protocol:
$ git clone https://[email protected]/git/personal_repo.git
To clear credentials cache before time out execute command:
$ git credential-cache exit
Checkout manual pages:
$ man git-credential-cache
$ man gitcredentials
Third way – use ~/.netrc file
You can also store credentials (per host) using plain text in ~/.netrc file:
machine source.sleeplessbeastie.eu login USERNAME password PASSWORD
Make sure that anyone else cannot read file:
$ chmod 0600 ~/.netrc
Use secure protocol:
$ git clone https://source.sleeplessbeastie.eu/git/personal_repo.git
reference: http://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2012/08/12/git-how-to-avoid-typing-your-password-repeatedly/