How to save username and password in Git?

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Edson Cezar picture Edson Cezar · Mar 11, 2016 · Viewed 1.4M times · Source

I want to use a push and pull automatically in GitExtension, without entering my user and password in a prompt, every time.

So how can I save my credentials in git?

Answer

Neetika picture Neetika · Mar 11, 2016

Attention: This method saves the credentials in plaintext on your PC's disk. Everyone on your computer can access it, e.g. malicious NPM modules.

Run

git config --global credential.helper store

then

git pull

provide a username and password and those details will then be remembered later. The credentials are stored in a file on the disk, with the disk permissions of "just user readable/writable" but still in plaintext.

If you want to change the password later

git pull

Will fail, because the password is incorrect, git then removes the offending user+password from the ~/.git-credentials file, so now re-run

git pull

to provide a new password so it works as earlier.

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