Are git push and pulls encrypted?

Question

You have credentials to prevent unauthorized access to your git repository server (or for github,bitbucket), but this simply prevents someone from performing pull,push,etc without proper authorization.

However is the content of the pull, push, etc encrypted in any way to prevent someone from sniffing packets and obtaining sensitive code from your repository? If it exists how can you enable it?

Answer 1

Git use several protocols. Read more about it here: https://git-scm.com/book/ch4-1.html.

SSH is a secured protocol so you can use it.
As you can see the last step before transferring the content is the encryption and vice versa.

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Answer 2

Git can communicate using a number of different network protocols - HTTP, HTTPS, SSH and Git's own protocol. HTTPS and SSH provide encryption while HTTP and the Git protocol do not. Most well known Git providers such as GitHub use HTTPS and are therefore encrypted. If you are setting up an internal environment, the full instructions for implementing HTTPS or SSH can be found here:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Getting-Git-on-a-Server