Gitlab automate push with personal access token

Question

I need to provide every time I push to gitlab my username and my personal access token. This is not about the ssh key, as described in other postings here on stackoverflow.

To copy/pasted the access token every time is very cumbersome.

So is there a save config option to permanently save the access token so that I am automatically authenticated?

Possible duplicate of [Git keeps prompting me for password](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7773181/git-keeps-prompting-me-for-password) — Nils Werner, Dec 22 '17 at 09:18
can you please point me to the place where this post solve the problem for >>personal access tokens << which my question is about? — Michael Hoeller, Dec 22 '17 at 09:22

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '17 at 09:43

I found the solution. Just add a store for the credentials in your config with:

git config credential.helper store

And after you have entered the credentials the next time git will take them from .git-credentials instead of asking you. Just a not on security: the store saves everthing in plain text!

Gitlab automate push with personal access token

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