gitlab - Push to a repository using access_token

Question

I implemented the oauth2 web flow in order to get access_token from users of my app. With the access_token, I would like to do the following actions:

1. Get use

Answer 1

It is also possible to push directly without adding a new remote repository:

git push https://gitlab-ci-token:<access_token>@gitlab.com/myuser/myrepo.git <branch_name>

This could be especially handy if you would like pull & push to different repositories.

Answer 2

Push using gitlab-ci-token is not currently supported by Gitlab. There is an open feature request.

Answer 3

You should do

git remote add origin https://<access-token-name>:<access-token>@gitlab.com/myuser/myrepo.git

Note that this stores the access token as plain text in the .git\config file. To avoid this you can use the git credential system, providing the access token name for "username" and the access token for "password". This should store the credentials in the git credential system in a more secure way.