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Using using vim's vundle package manager, I'm trying to clone the ps1 plugin to my machine. I'm on a Windows 7 machine and my vimfile directory is symlinked so even though my git repository is located on D:, my git commands are using my home folder on C:.

My problem is that when I issue a clone command on my symlink'ed folder I am being prompted with for a github username and password. Issuing the same command on my actual folder works as expected with no prompt.

From the windows command prompt I issue the git command

git clone --recursive https://github.com/pprovost/vim-ps1.git "D:\dev\git\.vim\bundle\vim-ps1"

and it works as expected, but if I try to execute the command 'through' the symlink 

git clone --recursive https://github.com/pprovost/vim-ps1.git "C:\Users\ebeach\vimfiles\bundle\vim-ps1"

I am prompted for the github username and password.

My search for this answer is muddled with people trying to manipulate symlinks via github - I would just like to know why I am being prompted for a username and password in this particular case.

Thanks!

-- UPDATE --

This may be specific to the ps1 package since other packages seem to work without a problem. As an example, the CtrlP github package clones without the prompt:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim.git "C:\Users\ebeach\vimfiles\bundle\ctrlp.vim"

But I still don't know why I am bring prompted for the ps1 package.

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  • so what are the differences in your password setups between those repos? do you use credential-helper, .netrc or similar? – eis Nov 27 '12 at 20:20
  • @eis I'm not a member of vim-ps1 or ctrlp and they are both public on github so I don't know why I am being prompted. Probably unrelated: I am a member of some projects on github so I do use git to connect to github in the same environment that I'm issuing these commands - but I do not use any credential helper. I am prompted each time I push a change to github. – E.Beach Nov 28 '12 at 19:09
  • It seems to me that the authentication behaviour in github is inconsistent, as I sometimes get asked for credentials, sometimes not, when pushing and pulling from my repositories over https. I know that local credential caching is not an issue because it happens on clean machines. – T0xicCode Jan 29 '13 at 17:02
  • Have you tried using WireShark or Fiddler to look at bits over the wire? – Mark Leighton Fisher Feb 06 '13 at 23:08

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I don't understand it, but it looks like I found an answer in another post. It appears my problem was the case of the url, so where I had https://github.com/pprovost/vim-ps1.git, I should have respected the original case of https://github.com/PProvost/vim-ps1.git.

This solved my problem but I can't explain why one situation work and the other one didn't.

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