Git - Credential

Git makes use of a credential helper (an external utility) to be able to retrieve the credentials)

The id of a credential (user, ww) is a URL (Credential context)

It will lookup a credential with the user, protocol, host. By order of precedence, Git will search the following credential URL to find a credential

• first, git:http://[email protected]:port
• if not found then, git:http://hostname:port

Which credential helper use git now ?

git config --global credential.helper

manager

git help -a | grep credential-

  credential-manager      merge-recursive         submodule--helper
  credential-store        merge-resolve           subtree
  credential-wincred      merge-subtree           svn

First, list them, then you can ask the help for one of them with the below command.

Example for credential-store

git help credential-store

Git - Config

git config --global credential.helper foo
#where foo is your credential helper

Example:

• for Git Credential Windows Manager

git config --global credential.helper manager

• for Git Credential Store (File System)

git config --global credential.helper store

• In a url, it works only for ssh or https:

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

• Setting the username

git config --global credential.helper cache
git config credential.https://hostname.username myusername

• https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials