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Re: credential-store get: No such file or directory

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SPSteven Penny <srpen6@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 3, 2021, 03:57 UTC
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On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 9:25 PM Jeff King wrote:
> Can you show us the contents of your ~/.gitconfig file?
    [color "diff"]
    meta = yellow bold
    [credential]
    helper = store
    [diff]
    wsErrorHighlight = all
    [user]
    email = srpen6@gmail.com
    name = Steven Penny
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> Also, what does:
>
>   GIT_TRACE=1 git push
>
> say about what it's trying to execute?
Aha:
    22:53:19.785297 run-command.c:666       trace: run_command:
git-remote-https origin https://github.com/89z/googleplay
    22:53:20.024042 run-command.c:666       trace: run_command: 'git
credential-store get'
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> And finally, does running:
>
>   echo "url=https://example.com" | git credential-store get
>
> work? I wouldn't expect it to produce any output (since you'd have
> nothing stored for that site), but it shouldn't give you the "no such
> file or directory" complaint.
No output, not error, just as you said.
> I think it is not complaining about finding the credential file, but
> running the credential-store helper in the first place. The "cannot run"
> message comes from our run-command.c code.
Yeah, looks like you are right, based on the trace result.
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