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Re: Problem with credential.helper=store in git 2.32.0.windows.2

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SRSebastian Richter <sebastian.richter@htw-berlin.de>
Date
Jan 10, 2022, 07:58 UTC
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<1c331bdd51b424022bfd598c71d7d666@HTW-Berlin.de>
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Hi Johannes,

thanks for clarifying this. I'm using 'git config --system --unset credential.helper' before setting the file store in the local configuration now and it works.

Best Sebastian
Am 09.01.2022 22:53, schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
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> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, Imi Admin wrote:
> 
>> Here's my local git configuration:
>> 
>> PS C:\scripts> git config -l --show-origin
>> [...]
>> file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig	credential.helper=manager-core
>> file:C:/Program 
>> Files/Git/etc/gitconfig	credential.https://dev.azure.com.usehttppath=true
>> file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig	init.defaultbranch=master
>> file:.git/config	core.repositoryformatversion=0
>> file:.git/config	core.filemode=false
>> file:.git/config	core.bare=false
>> file:.git/config	core.logallrefupdates=true
>> file:.git/config	core.symlinks=false
>> file:.git/config	core.ignorecase=true
>> file:.git/config	remote.origin.url=https://mygitlab.de/mygroup/myrepo.git
>> file:.git/config	remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>> file:.git/config	branch.master.remote=origin
>> file:.git/config	branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
>> file:.git/config	user.name=myname
>> file:.git/config	user.email=my@email
>> file:.git/config	credential.helper=store --file 
>> C:/scripts/.git/.git-credentials
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> Anyway as far as i understood git should not exec 
>> git-credential-manager-core
>> get at all with my local git configuration?
> 
> You need one additional thing to make that happen. As per
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-credentialhelper:
> 
> 	Note that multiple helpers may be defined. See gitcredentials[7]
> 	for details and examples.
> 
> And in https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials#_configuration_options, 
> we
> read:
> 
> 	If there are multiple instances of the credential.helper
> 	configuration variable, each helper will be tried in turn, and may
> 	provide a username, password, or nothing. Once Git has acquired
> 	both a username and a password, no more helpers will be tried.
> 
> 	If credential.helper is configured to the empty string, this
> 	resets the helper list to empty (so you may override a helper set
> 	by a lower-priority config file by configuring the empty-string
> 	helper, followed by whatever set of helpers you would like).
> 
> So you need to insert a line "helper =` (with an empty value) in your
> .git/config's `[credential]` section:
> 
> 	[credential]
> 		# reset 'credential.helper' list
> 		helper =
> 		helper = "store --file C:/scripts/.git/.git-credentials"
> 
> Ciao,
> Johannes
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