git

I use git for all of my projects that need version control.

Git credential caching

By default, git will prompt you on every operation that needs authentication to provide a username/password. It is possible to use the built-in storage methods to either cache credentials in memory for 15 minutes, or to store credentials permanently on disk as plaintext. If one wants permanent encrypted credential storage, it requires some additional setup.

See

• git book - 7.14 Git Tools - Credential Storage
• git doc - gitcredentials
• git-credential-manager - Credential stores

The simplest thing to do is to install the git-credential-manager which is developed by GitHub.

paru -S git-credential-manager-core

It's possible to configure git-credential-manger to use the GPG-based password manger pass.

git-credential-manager configure
git config --global credential.credentialStore gpg

or just edit ~/.config/git/config directly

[credential]
	helper = /usr/bin/git-credential-manager
	credentialStore = gpg

Next time a credential is requested, a pop-up appears and one can authenticate in a variety of ways (through browser login, through a personal access token, etc.). It then stores the data at

~/.password-store/git/https/github.com/stephen-huan.gpg

for GitHub, for example.

Another program that uses pass to perform git credential caching is pass-git-helper, but it seems a bit more complicated. One advantage of git-credential-manager is that it is able to use different methods to store its secrets.