Re: Git credential store conflicting configuration leads to unexpected behavior

>
> On 2022-12-06 at 23:53:05, Gennady Uraltsev wrote:
> > Thank you!
> >
> > This makes sense and the solution is simple. Is this somewhere in the
> > documentation (honest question, I am not being a jerk)? I tried my
> > best to figure this out before bugging people on the mailinglist.
>
> Yes, but maybe not where you'd expect.  In gitcredentials(7), there's
> this text:
>
>   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).
>
> The `credential.helper` option mentions that manual page.
> --
> brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
> Toronto, Ontario, CA