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File '_netrc' / '.netrc' is not accepted by Git

I have set the %HOME% environment variable on my Windows installation.

In that folder I have put a file called _netrc. Inside that file I have:

machine code.google.com login <logon> password <censored>

But both, MSYS and Tortoise keep asking for a password.

I am using Windows 7, MSYSGit and TortoiseGit. Why does this not work?

I have found an article on Stack Overflow that said it must be named _netrc and not .netrc, but none of them work.

Solution

  • Assuming you did everything that was described in this answer and you set the right location for your %HOME% environment variable (confirm this with an echo %HOME% and check that in that location there's a _netrc file), there must something be wrong in the usage of your repository.

    The URL to clone a Google Code repository is https://user.googlecode.com/svn/trunk (see this Google link for that).

    So, you have to do a

    git svn clone https://user.googlecode.com/svn/trunk

    in order to import your Google repository.