prompt for password ONLY for push (but not pull)

Question

I'd like to make my command line git client prompt for a password (as a reminder that I should think twice before pushing changes to a repo which are irreversible without admin access such as temporary branches or unsquashed/badly described commits), but I don't want to have to authenticate myself each time I want to pull (and my code base changes regularly).

At the moment I have to type in my username and password twice, once for git pull and once for git push. Can I restrict the prompting to just push?

Answer 1

Can I restrict the prompting to just push?

Yes: you can set your default url with your username in it, as I mention in your other question.

git remote set-url https://<yourUsername>@github.com/<yourUsername>/<yourRepo>
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

But you also can define a push url without your username

git config remote.origin.pushURL url https://github.com/<yourUsername>/<yourRepo>

When pushing, you would have to enter your username, while pulling would only ask for the password.
If you have a credential helper , that means:

• pull will ask for the password only once per session (and keep the password in memory)
• push would ask for your username (and then the credential helper would take over)

• Sridhar Sarnobat: Thanks, I didn't know you could set separate URLs for pushing and tracking.
• VonC: @Sridhar-Sarnobat didn't you accept this answer before?
• Sridhar Sarnobat: Hmmmm, so this doesn't actually make the pull touchless unless you use credential helper does it?
• Sridhar Sarnobat: I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how to use the credential helper.
• VonC: @Sridhar-Sarnobat are you on Windows? If yes, type git config credential.helper wincred in your repo, and give it a try: it will ask you for password only once.