Re: Fwd: git clone does not respect command line options

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 28, 2016, 05:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20160228050113.GA19131@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAMDzUtxnSeTrfBWWqeOVQm30x5nE6fC9LSx=YNSws2h24TmchQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 09:03:43AM +0530, Guilherme wrote:

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> What is the current situation if credential.helper is set twice in the same
> config file.
> 
> Either
> [credential]
>   helper = first
>   helper = second
> 
> or with
> [credential]
>   helper = first
> 
> [credenital]
>   helper = second
> 
> Will both be used by git clone?

Yes, both are used, as documented in gitcredentials(7).

> How do i remove these from the command line?
> I tried git config --unset credential.helper but that only gives you a
> warning and does not remove any.

Try --unset-all.

Also make sure you tell "git config" to operate on the file that actually contains them. In v2.8.0-rc0 (but not in any released version), we have --show-origin, and you can do:

  $ git config --show-origin --get-all credential.helper
  file:/home/peff/.gitconfig      cache
  file:.git/config        first
  file:.git/config        second

Write operations work on .git/config by default; if the entries are in your ~/.gitconfig, use "--global --unset-all".

> Worse is that if second is the empty string there is no way for one to know
> there is a second set unless he tries to delete the first one. But one
> still cannot query the value of the second.

Try --get-all, which will print all values for a key (you can also use --get-regexp if you want to find other credential.* keys).

-Peff