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jas
jas

Reputation: 590

How do I check whether I have access to a repository without cloning?

I have some code where people submit git repo links. The repo may be served over HTTPS with no authentication or HTTPS with basic authentication. I want to check programmatically whether if I have access to the repo. I don’t want to run git clone because it could be time-consuming to download the entire history. I’m trying to find the fastest way to test authentication.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 6812

Answers (2)

Greg Bacon
Greg Bacon

Reputation: 139531

One route is git ls-remote as in

$ if git ls-remote https://github.com/git/git.git >/dev/null ; then echo got it ; fi
got it

Upvotes: 16

Sam Varshavchik
Sam Varshavchik

Reputation: 118352

I would try the following:

  • Use git init to initialize a new, scratch git repo.

  • Try using git remote add, to attempt to add the remote repository.

  • Then, attempt a git remote show.

If all of these steps succeed, this should be fairly conclusive that you have access to the repository, without doing a full clone.

Upvotes: 1

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