Git clone with user and password

Question

I'm using Git on Windows with LDAP. No issue so far.

When I'm cloning my remote repository I call:

git clone http://user@host.com/name/.git and I got a prompt for password

This is working. But now I will run a script and clone without password prompt.

How can I do this?

[Duplicate on StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10054318/how-to-provide-username-and-password-when-run-git-clone-gitremote-git) has more substantial answers. — Dan Dascalescu, Sep 18 '14 at 23:14

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '11 at 15:20

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Put it in the URL.

http://user:password@host.com/name/.git

answered May 12 '11 at 15:20

This is what I tried, but this was not working. SYSTEM answers: sh.exe: event not found – Klaus Meier May 16 '11 at 06:51
That's because your shell is consuming the `!` in your password. Escape or encode it. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 16 '11 at 06:55
is there an option to store the password in a file like on Star Team stcmd.exe co -epwdfile "pw.txt" -p "$user:@host" – Klaus Meier May 16 '11 at 07:17
You can set the `core.askpass` option to a program that will output the password on stdout, but nothing built-in. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 16 '11 at 07:20
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I found an escape character for @ -> %40 for example but non for ! – Klaus Meier May 16 '11 at 07:42
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`>>> hex(ord('!'))` `'0x21'` – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 16 '11 at 07:48
Still having trouble here In case I use 0x21 in the password my system take 0x21 as string. my command git clone http://user:password_with_1@host.com.... – Klaus Meier May 17 '11 at 12:06
You should use `%21`, not `0x21`. `0x21` is the hexadecimal byte notation for `!`, `%21` is the URL encoding notation for `!`. – joar Nov 23 '12 at 13:21

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