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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 3, 2021, 02:25 UTC
Message-ID: <YYHzDuoJfWknI1XM@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8dQmu6Dfo4KBsVk+6xeR6=+S8bOKk-kbc3ub7c0jAsH61-cg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 07:27:44PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote:

> I recently tried to use this:
> 
>     git config --global credential.helper store

That should work...

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> but whenever I run this:
> 
>     git push
> 
> I get this result:
> 
>     fatal: cannot run git credential-store get: No such file or directory

Hmm. That sounds like it is treating "git credential-store get" as a single executable name, rather than splitting it. I'm not sure how we'd end up with such a bug, though.

Can you show us the contents of your ~/.gitconfig file? I'm wondering if there's any funny quoting (there shouldn't be from the git-config command you gave above, but maybe there's another stale entry or something?).

Also, what does:

  GIT_TRACE=1 git push

say about what it's trying to execute?

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.

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> I have tried changing HOME value, as well as XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and it
> doesn't seem to change anything. I also tried manually creating the
> credentials file, to see if that would fix it, but error remains. I am
> using Git 2.33. I know this worked
> in the past, but it's been some years since I tried it.

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.

-Peff