I'm trying to create a custom recipe to a proprietary software from my company. The code should be fetched from a git server, with username and password authentication through a http connection (port 8080).

From the terminal I use the following command line to clone the project:

$ git clone http://username:pass@server:8080/project.git

well in the bitbake recipe, I tried the following in SRC_URI variable, with no success:

SRC_URI = "git://username:pass@server:8080/project.git;protocol=http"

I also tried:

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