Re: Clear an invalid password out of the credential-cache?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 14, 2014, 22:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20140414221530.GA29704@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <2D1883E9414E4E1E99559A6A2163BE87@black>

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 09:12:57AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:

> Is it me or is the only way to clear a single invalid password out of the
> credential-cache is by "git credential-cache exit"?

Try the "reject" action:

  $ : remember a credential
  $ url() { echo url=https://example.com; }
  $ (url; echo username=me; echo password=foo) | git credential-cache store

  $ : get it again
  $ url | git credential-cache get
  username=me
  password=foo

  $ : forget it
  $ url | git credential-cache erase

  $ : now produces nothing
  $ url | git credential-cache get

Git should do this for you automatically if it tries to use the password and gets rejected (but only if the rejection is a password rejection, like an HTTP 401).

-Peff