Git pull command from different user

Question

I am working with my friend on a project the code of which is on Git. If I need to pull the changes from my friend's machine, can I pull it from my username/password using the following command without any issue?

git pull https://[email protected]/abc/theproject.git 

Answer 1

This command will help to pull from the repository as the different user:

git pull https://[email protected]/projectfolder/projectname.git master 

It is a workaround, when you are using same machine that someone else used before you, and had saved credentials

Answer 2

Was looking for the solution of a similar problem. Thanks to the answer provided by Davlet and Cupcake I was able to solve my problem.

Posting this answer here since I think this is the intended question

So I guess generally the problem that people like me face is what to do when a repo is cloned by another user on a server and that user is no longer associated with the repo.

How to pull from the repo without using the credentials of the old user ?

You edit the .git/config file of your repo.

and change

url = https://<old-username>@github.com/abc/repo.git/ 

to

url = https://<new-username>@github.com/abc/repo.git/ 

After saving the changes, from now onwards git pull will pull data while using credentials of the new user.

I hope this helps anyone with a similar problem