Re: Why git on windows pops up Git Credential Manager inspite of having set a credential helper in .gitconfig

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 1, 2025, 16:41 UTC
Message-ID: <610f64a5-015e-b2d8-03ea-78bb623f6af0@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <PN3PR01MB959737CFDDC39898364CBE34B841A@PN3PR01MB9597.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

Hi Aditya,

On Tue, 1 Jul 2025, Aditya Garg wrote:

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> I am having this issue with Git for Windows that in case I configure a credential helper by following the git
> credentials documentation (https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials), the Git Credential Manager still pops up.
> I simply close the pop up window, and then it seems to be getting the password from my credential manager.
> 
> I removed it using git config --edit --system, but after every update, it pops out again.

As per https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials#Documentation/gitcredentials.txt-helper:

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 non-expired password, no more helpers will be tried.

> I wonder if some proper fix is there for this.

Yes, from the same page:

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 the trick is to call `git config set --global --add credential.helper ''` followed by `git config set --global --add credential.helper $HELPER`.

Ciao, Johannes