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Failing to push to a repository erases authentication helper credentials

From
Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Date
Jun 30, 2025, 13:45 UTC
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Hello,

I was trying out AGit https://docs.gitea.com/usage/agit with oauth helper https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth encountering this bug https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/34583

When doing so the oauth helper asked for new authentication, then for some reason I was asked for authentication by some other helper.

After that pushing to repository to which I have permissions asked for authentication again.

This hints that any failed git operation erases helper credentials.
That does not sound like a desirable behavior.
Could the previous credentials be preserved?
Thanks
Michal
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