Although SSH is preferred, if you want to use Git’s credential helper here’s two simple options, note you’ll probably not want to use the Credentials Helper method, because it stores the credentials in a plain-text file, albeit in your home directory, but still. Using the Credentials Helper, you won\u2019t have to re-enter your username and password each time to commit, push or pull!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Store Credentials Temporarily in Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Git can cache your credentials in memory for a specified time (e.g., 15 minutes):<\/p>\n\n\n\n This will remember your credentials for one hour (3600 seconds). You can adjust the Store Credentials Permanently<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want Git to remember your credentials permanently, you can use the Git credential store<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n After running this command, Git will store your username and password in a plain-text file ( Note<\/strong>: This method stores your credentials in plain text, which is not the most secure approach. You might prefer using a different method or tool like an SSH key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although SSH is preferred, if you want to use Git’s credential helper here’s two simple options, note you’ll probably not want to use the Credentials Helper method, because it stores the credentials in a plain-text file, albeit in your home directory, but still. Using the Credentials Helper, you won\u2019t have to re-enter your username and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops","category-git"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n--timeout<\/code> value as needed. You’ll still need to enter the credentials once, but you’ll not have to keep re-entering each time you need to do something with git.<\/p>\n\n\n\ngit config --global credential.helper store<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n~\/.git-credentials<\/code>). The next time you push, Git will automatically use the stored credentials without prompting you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n