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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 9, 2022, 21:53 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2201092246520.339@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <8838ac786ed46b841e4172824b80564b@htw-berlin.de>

Hi Sebastian,

On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, Imi Admin wrote:

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> Here's my local git configuration:
>
> PS C:\scripts> git config -l --show-origin
> [...]
> file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig	credential.helper=manager-core
> file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig	credential.https://dev.azure.com.usehttppath=true
> file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig	init.defaultbranch=master
> file:.git/config	core.repositoryformatversion=0
> file:.git/config	core.filemode=false
> file:.git/config	core.bare=false
> file:.git/config	core.logallrefupdates=true
> file:.git/config	core.symlinks=false
> file:.git/config	core.ignorecase=true
> file:.git/config	remote.origin.url=https://mygitlab.de/mygroup/myrepo.git
> file:.git/config	remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> file:.git/config	branch.master.remote=origin
> file:.git/config	branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
> file:.git/config	user.name=myname
> file:.git/config	user.email=my@email
> file:.git/config	credential.helper=store --file C:/scripts/.git/.git-credentials
>
> [...]
>
> Anyway as far as i understood git should not exec git-credential-manager-core
> get at all with my local git configuration?

You need one additional thing to make that happen. As per https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-credentialhelper:

	Note that multiple helpers may be defined. See gitcredentials[7]
	for details and examples.

And in https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials#_configuration_options, we read:

	If there are multiple instances of the credential.helper
	configuration variable, each helper will be tried in turn, and may
	provide a username, password, or nothing. Once Git has acquired
	both a username and a password, no more helpers will be tried.

	If credential.helper is configured to the empty string, this
	resets the helper list to empty (so you may override a helper set
	by a lower-priority config file by configuring the empty-string
	helper, followed by whatever set of helpers you would like).

So you need to insert a line "helper =` (with an empty value) in your .git/config's `[credential]` section:

	[credential]
		# reset 'credential.helper' list
		helper =
		helper = "store --file C:/scripts/.git/.git-credentials"

Ciao, Johannes