git credential management Mac OS

Lukas Michael· Apr 11, 2025, 11:09 UTC · lore

Dear git kernel team,

I want to know if there is a possibility to set my GitHub PAT as credential without the need to clone or push a repository at the moment. I want to setup my Mac and store the token for further git clone / push operations which then need the token.

I hope you can understand my issue 😅

Kind regards

Koji Nakamaru· Apr 13, 2025, 03:11 UTC · re: Lukas Michael · lore

Re: git credential management Mac OS

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM Lukas Michael <lukas.23022005@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to know if there is a possibility to set my GitHub PAT as
> credential without the need to clone or push a repository at the
> moment. I want to setup my Mac and store the token for further git
> clone / push operations which then need the token.

You can utilize "git credential approve" as below:

cat <<EOF | git credential approve protocol=https host=github.com username=$USER password=$PAT EOF

Koji Nakamaru