🥳 This is my first blog post 🎉

Hey there. Recently, I installed Linux Mint on my work computer. I struggled to configure my Git credentials for my company’s self-hosted Gitlab.

I intentionally avoid using SSH keys, because my it-guy-brother said to me ‘There can be a problem in the future if you use SSH keys for Gitlab and if you want to connect your work machine using SSH.’. So, I didn’t even try :)

On every push/pull/clone, I needed to write my username and password (or my personal access token that I created on 2nd step)

Anyway, here is how I solved it:

• I went to ‘my Gitlab profile’ > ‘Access Tokens’ page (custom-gitlab-domain.com/-/user_settings/personal_access_tokens)
• I clicked the ‘Add new token’ button and selected read_repository and write_repository. I wrote a name for the token. Let’s say my-pc. I set expiration date. And finally, I clicked the ‘Create personal access token’ button. Let’s say it is my-token

Don’t forget to copy the access token, because you won’t be able to see it again.

Edit : I forgot the most important part. You need to tell store credentials to git. To do that run this on terminal : git config --global credential.helper store

• I opened a terminal window and tried to clone a repo
• This time, Instead of my username, I used the name of token that I created which is my-pc from this example
• And I used the token for password which is my-token from this example And my problem is resolved.

Quick disclaimer: The personal access token is stored in .git-credentials file in HOME folder as plain text. So, use at your own risk

Thanks for reading. I hope it is helpful.

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