git clone over https 401 error and not asking for username or password

Question

I have a private git repository on Codaset. Normally when I try to clone it over HTTPS on my Windows machine, it asks me for my username and password. When I try to clone it

Answer 1

I got it to work using this format:

https://username:password@codaset.com/username/project_name.git destination_folder

However according to these 2 posts, using that method could be a security problem:

Can a username and password be sent safely over HTTPS via URL parameters?

Username and password in https url