[JENKINS-32404] Password removed from repository URL during polling

To build content of private repository, the git url in job is configured as https://user:apitoken@​github.com/group/repo. The cloning and form validation seems to be happy with this, but git polling seems to remove the api token and fail to access the repository:

```
> git ls-remote -h https://user@​github.com/group/repo # timeout=10
FATAL: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git ls-remote -h https://user@​github.com/group/repo" returned status code 128:
stdout:
stderr: error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://user@​github.com/group/repo/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

```

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Originally reported by olivergondza, imported from: Password removed from repository URL during polling

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): git-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 2025-12-02
  

Raw content of original issue

To build content of private repository, the git url in job is configured as https://user:apitoken@github.com/group/repo. The cloning and form validation seems to be happy with this, but git polling seems to remove the api token and fail to access the repository:




> git ls-remote -h https://user@github.com/group/repo # timeout=10

FATAL: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git ls-remote -h https://user@github.com/group/repo" returned status code 128:

stdout: 

stderr: error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://user@github.com/group/repo/info/refs


fatal: HTTP request failed

environment

```
git 2.3.5

git client 1.17.1
```