git clone fails - always requires authorization which fails

[petricf]

The command
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/github/copilot.vim.git ~/.config/nvim/pack/github/start/copilot.vim

as given in README.md always asks for authentication.

Neither my alias name nor my email address (with password) is being accepted. The password query always shows the entered account suffixed with "@github.com".

The same credentials are valid for authenticate at github.com.
The destination directory is existing.

Platform: Linux Mint 22.3
neovim as delivered with Linux Mint 22.3 (v0.9.5)
git as delivered with Linux Mint 22.3 (2.43.0)

Any ideas ?

[yermulnik]

This has nothing to do with copilot.vim as it's about auth to GitHub (which seemed to have recently changed something around auth for clone/pull over HTTPS I guess as I see tools now start asking for user/password when cloning over HTTPS).

Please look at https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/about-authentication-to-github#authenticating-with-the-command-line on how to auth to clone over HTTPS (you need to use PAT for this), or otherwise just clone using SSH like e.g. git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:github/copilot.vim.git ~/.config/nvim/pack/github/start/copilot.vim (or alternatively you can use GH CLI for the same).