Re: Problem with credential.helper=store in git 2.32.0.windows.2

From: Sebastian Richter <sebastian.richter@htw-berlin.de>
Date: Jan 10, 2022, 14:03 UTC
Message-ID: <c0d6f26a5e96f12719d5bfa969529ec9@HTW-Berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2201101349550.339@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Hi Johannes,

you are right, but during my (cluster) ssh connections no one else uses my systems (hopefully), and i do restore the system file afterwards.

But i'll implement your approach in the next script version.

Thanks & best Sebastian

Am 10.01.2022 13:52, schrieb Johannes Schindelin:

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> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2022, Sebastian Richter wrote:
> 
>> thanks for clarifying this. I'm using 'git config --system --unset
>> credential.helper' before setting the file store in the local 
>> configuration
>> now and it works.
> 
> I am not quite sure whether that is a good solution. You are changing 
> the
> system configuration for the benefit of a local configuration. That 
> would
> potentially break every other user outside of that repository that now
> works.
> 
> My suggestion is to either go with my earlier recommendation and add an
> empty `credential.helper` in the repository's config before the actual 
> one
> (and leave the system config alone), or alternatively change the system
> config instead of the repository config in the first place.
> 
> Ciao,
> Johannes

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