Using GitLab token to clone without authentication

Question

I know this is old but this is how you do it:

git clone https://oauth2:[email protected]/vendor/package.git

The gitlab has a lot of tokens:

• Private token
• Personal Access Token
• CI/CD running token

I tested only the Personal Access Token using GitLab Community Edition 10.1.2, the example:

git clone https://gitlab-ci-token:${Personal Access Tokens}@gitlab.com/username/myrepo.git


git clone https://oauth2:${Personal Access Tokens}@gitlab.com/username/myrepo.git

or using username and password:

git clone https://${username}:${password}@gitlab.com/username/myrepo.git

or by input your password:

git clone https://${username}@gitlab.com/username/myrepo.git

But the private token seems can not work.

You can do it like this:

git clone https://gitlab-ci-token:<private token>@git.example.com/myuser/myrepo.git

Use the token instead of the password (the token needs to have "api" scope for clone to be allowed):

git clone https://username:[email protected]/user/repo.git

Tested against 11.0.0-ee.