From: Aditya Garg Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:02:01 GMT Subject: Re: Why git on windows pops up Git Credential Manager inspite of having set a credential helper in .gitconfig Message-ID: In-Reply-To: > If you can't or don't want to reinstall Git for Windows to reconfigure > it, you could try setting the `credential.helper` option to an empty > string and then configuring the helper you want. For instance, it might > look like this (not valid for Windows, just an example): > > [credential] > helper = > helper = libsecret > That's exactly what I did, and it fixed my issue. Thanks! > The empty string resets the list to remove any existing helpers and then > you can append whatever values you want (in my case, libsecret, but > again, that almost certainly does not work on Windows).