[Rd] GitHub passwords in .git/config?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 July 2019 at 11:41, Spencer Graves wrote:
| On 2019-07-15 10:56, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > Don't write passwords down like this. Your error is likely in expecting _ssh_
| > authentication over _https_ -- when it works only over ssh. Use the alternate
| > form for a remote e.g. one that looks like git using github.com:emacs-ess/ESS.git
| 
| 
|        I'm confused.  I changed that line to:
| 
| 
|              url = https://git@github.com:sbgraves237/sbgraves237/Ecdat
| 
| 
|        Then when I did "git pull" I got:
| 
| 
| fatal: unable to access 
| 'https://git@github.com:sbgraves237/sbgraves237/Ecdat/': Port number 
| ended with 's'

Briefly:

 - Go to your repo.
 - Click the green 'Clone or Download' button.
 - If it shows https, select 'use ssh' in top right.
 - Copy the url:  git using github.com:sbgraves237/Ecfun.git
 - Use it instead of:   https://github.com/sbgraves237/Ecfun.git
 - Don't improvise a new form.  Use theirs.

Hth, Dirk

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