gitpython git authentication using user and password

What worked well for me (worked with GitHub, self hosted BitBucket, most likely will work on GitLab too).

Pre-requisites

Note, that despite the name, password here is your access token generated by GitHub and NOT your GitHub password.

from git import Repofull_local_path = "/path/to/repo/"username = "your-username"password = "your-password"remote = f"https://{username}:{password}@github.com/some-account/some-repo.git"

Clone repository

This will store your credentials in .git/config, you won't need them later.

Repo.clone_from(remote, full_local_path)

Commit changes

repo = Repo(full_local_path)repo.git.add("rel/path/to/dir/with/changes/")repo.index.commit("Some commit message")

Push changes

As mentioned above, you don't need your credentials, since they are already stored in .git/config.

repo = Repo(full_local_path)origin = repo.remote(name="origin")origin.push()

This is what I used for myself for pulling

pull.py

#! /usr/bin/env python3import gitimport osfrom getpass import getpassproject_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))os.environ['GIT_ASKPASS'] = os.path.join(project_dir, 'askpass.py')os.environ['GIT_USERNAME'] = usernameos.environ['GIT_PASSWORD'] = getpass()g = git.cmd.Git('/path/to/some/local/repo')g.pull()

askpass.py (similar to this one)

This is in the same directory as pull.py and is not limited to Github only.

#!/usr/bin/env python3## Short & sweet script for use with git clone and fetch credentials.# Requires GIT_USERNAME and GIT_PASSWORD environment variables,# intended to be called by Git via GIT_ASKPASS.#from sys import argvfrom os import environif 'username' in argv[1].lower():    print(environ['GIT_USERNAME'])    exit()if 'password' in argv[1].lower():    print(environ['GIT_PASSWORD'])    exit()exit(1)

I found this working solution:

1. create a script like this: ask_pass.py
2. before to execute push assign the environment vars:

   os.environment['GIT_ASKPASS']= <full path to your script>   os.environment['GIT_USERNAME'] = <committer username>   os.environment['GIT_PASSWORD'] = <the password>

and anything works fine.