How can I git clone over https with a personal access token containing '/'?

Question

I am trying to clone a repository from Bitbucket using a personal access token:

$ git clone https://{user}:{token}@bitbucket.repo/myrepo.git

Bitbucket just created four times in a row an access token containing a forward slash (/). Using such a token with git clone produces the following error:

fatal: unable to access 'https://{user}:{token}@bitbucket.repo/myrepo.git': URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL

The fifth token (without a /) worked. So, how can I git clone over https with a personal access token containing /?

Maybe you could try url-encoding it, ie. replace `/` with `%2F` — Thor Andreas Rognan, Aug 30 '19 at 19:31
Possible duplicate of [Clone a repo with Slash in Password](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24718519/clone-a-repo-with-slash-in-password) — phd, Aug 30 '19 at 20:15
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgit%5D+slash+url+encoding — phd, Aug 30 '19 at 20:16

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '19 at 19:39

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Replace all / with their url-encoded representation %2F.

answered Aug 30 '19 at 19:39

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Humble Bee · Answer 2 · 2023-03-31T10:37:46.460

When you generate token from git, it is more likely to generate special characters in the access token. While you pass these tokens as is with the reserved special characters, you will end up with an error. To overcome that you need to replace the special characters with the corresponding characters.

In your case, you need to replace / with %2F.

!   #   $    &   '   (   )   *   +   ,   /   :   ;   =   ?   @   [   ]
%21 %23 %24 %26 %27 %28 %29 %2A %2B %2C %2F %3A %3B %3D %3F %40 %5B %5D

Ref: https://fabianlee.org/2016/09/07/git-calling-git-clone-using-password-with-special-character/

How can I git clone over https with a personal access token containing '/'?

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