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Cloning a repo can be done with 

git clone https://username:[email protected]/username/repository.git

However, when the password contains a forward slash, this doesn't work. Error is: 

error: Couldn't resolve host 'klaus777:password' while accessing 
https://klaus777:password/[email protected]/romeo/server-code.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

If I URL Encode the Slash, I get the following error:

error: The requested URL returned error: 401 while accessing 
https://klaus777:password%2F%[email protected]/romeo/server-code.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

Hence, the question: How do you deal with forward slash in password?

PS. If I remove password from URL and provide it when prompted, everything works just fine.

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A percent encoding for forward slash should be %2F alone, check if you need to encode the '.' (%2E) that you seem to also have in your password.

https://klaus777:password%[email protected]/romeo/server-code.git

That doesn't seem to work for GitHub though: the OP Klaus confirms in the comments:

I changed the password.

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  • Unfortunately, encoding only the forward slash does not work either. – Klaus Jul 14 '14 at 02:58
  • @Klaus no need to encode the '.' (unreserved character). But for testing, can you check, for the '/', if this would work better? `%252F` or `%25252F` – VonC Jul 14 '14 at 06:30
  • @Klaus and make sure you didn't activated the 2FA (2 Form Authentication) on GitHub for your account, because then you would have to generate a token as a password, not use your regular account password. – VonC Jul 14 '14 at 06:32
  • I gave up. I changed the password. Unfortunately, these suggestions did not work either. – Klaus Jul 14 '14 at 09:13
  • @Klaus Ok, I have included your conclusion in the answer for more visibility. – VonC Jul 14 '14 at 09:22