title: Gitlab Personal Access Token - where to keep the token for seamless clone / pull / push
body: <p>Can anyone tell where to put the Gitlab PAT - Personal Access Token?</p>
  <p>Downloading git::<a href="https://gitlab.com/mycompany/myproject.git?ref=v0.0.1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitlab.com/mycompany/myproject.git?ref=v0.0.1</a> - unable to download - I can't change the URL as its fixed in project repo.</p>
  <p>I tried to set it in my git config --global
  gitlab.accesstoken=abcdef1233TVHEPkNxyz</p>
  <p>also as environment variable
  TOKEN=abcdef1233TVHEPkNxyz
  PRIVATE_TOKEN=abcdef1233TVHEPkNxyz</p>
  <p>Any advice please?</p>