Using using vim's vundle package manager, I'm trying to clone the ps1 plugin to my machine. I'm on a Windows 7 machine and my vimfile directory is symlinked so even though my git repository is located on D:, my git commands are using my home folder on C:.
My problem is that when I issue a clone command on my symlink'ed folder I am being prompted with for a github username and password. Issuing the same command on my actual folder works as expected with no prompt.
From the windows command prompt I issue the git command
git clone --recursive https://github.com/pprovost/vim-ps1.git "D:\dev\git\.vim\bundle\vim-ps1"
and it works as expected, but if I try to execute the command 'through' the symlink
git clone --recursive https://github.com/pprovost/vim-ps1.git "C:\Users\ebeach\vimfiles\bundle\vim-ps1"
I am prompted for the github username and password.
My search for this answer is muddled with people trying to manipulate symlinks via github - I would just like to know why I am being prompted for a username and password in this particular case.
Thanks!
-- UPDATE --
This may be specific to the ps1 package since other packages seem to work without a problem. As an example, the CtrlP github package clones without the prompt:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim.git "C:\Users\ebeach\vimfiles\bundle\ctrlp.vim"
But I still don't know why I am bring prompted for the ps1 package.
I don't understand it, but it looks like I found an answer in another post. It appears my problem was the case of the url, so where I had https://github.com/pprovost/vim-ps1.git, I should have respected the original case of https://github.com/PProvost/vim-ps1.git.
This solved my problem but I can't explain why one situation work and the other one didn't.