Clone a private repository over HTTPS: use an access token as the password

When you clone a private AngusGit repository over HTTPS, the terminal asks for a user name and a password. The user name is your login name. The password is a read-only access token. This article walks through how to generate the token, how to let Git remember it, how to use it in CI without leaking it, and what to do when it expires or authentication fails.