dulwich – clone from remote repo authentication
Question:
I couldn’t find any resource on this topic. I need to clone from a private repository by providing the username and the password. However when they are provided as keyword arguments to ‘dulwich.get-client-from-path()’ an error occurs saying ‘unknown argument “username”‘.
This seems to be a simple thing to do, however I can’t find the proper method.
Answers:
Try this snippet:
porcelain.clone("https://user:password@your_git_repo.git")
This works as well:
porcelain.clone("https://example.com/repo.git", username="user", password="password")
I quickly checked to see if the credentials are stored locally:
- When using the
username and password syntax from this answer, neither username nor password seem to be stored anywhere.
- When using the method from harvin’s answer, the username is stored locally (you can check this on the command line with
git remote -v). The password does not seem to be stored.
- This is different from the behavior of executing
git clone https://user:[email protected]/repo.git on the command line, which stores both username and password.
How I found out
- The Dulwich
porcelain documentation does not mention the possibility to clone with authentication at all.
- The source code for
porcelain.clone does take **kwargs.
- They are passed to
client.get_transport_and_path.
- This passes them to
client.get_transport_and_path_from_url.
- This passes them to
HttpGitClient.from_parsedurl. If username and password are present in the URL, they are extracted and stored into the kwargs dictionary (this probably is what makes harvin’s answer work).
- The
kwargs dictionary is then passed on again somewhere. I did not check that location out, because the fact that the code knows about a username and a password key in kwargs was enough evidence for me to just try the snippet I posted above, and it worked.
I couldn’t find any resource on this topic. I need to clone from a private repository by providing the username and the password. However when they are provided as keyword arguments to ‘dulwich.get-client-from-path()’ an error occurs saying ‘unknown argument “username”‘.
This seems to be a simple thing to do, however I can’t find the proper method.
Try this snippet:
porcelain.clone("https://user:password@your_git_repo.git")
This works as well:
porcelain.clone("https://example.com/repo.git", username="user", password="password")
I quickly checked to see if the credentials are stored locally:
- When using the
usernameandpasswordsyntax from this answer, neither username nor password seem to be stored anywhere. - When using the method from harvin’s answer, the username is stored locally (you can check this on the command line with
git remote -v). The password does not seem to be stored.- This is different from the behavior of executing
git clone https://user:[email protected]/repo.giton the command line, which stores both username and password.
- This is different from the behavior of executing
How I found out
- The Dulwich
porcelaindocumentation does not mention the possibility to clone with authentication at all. - The source code for
porcelain.clonedoes take**kwargs.- They are passed to
client.get_transport_and_path. - This passes them to
client.get_transport_and_path_from_url. - This passes them to
HttpGitClient.from_parsedurl. If username and password are present in the URL, they are extracted and stored into thekwargsdictionary (this probably is what makes harvin’s answer work). - The
kwargsdictionary is then passed on again somewhere. I did not check that location out, because the fact that the code knows about ausernameand apasswordkey inkwargswas enough evidence for me to just try the snippet I posted above, and it worked.
- They are passed to