On 01-07-2025 10:11 pm, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Aditya, > > On Tue, 1 Jul 2025, Aditya Garg wrote: > >> I am having this issue with Git for Windows that in case I configure a credential helper by following the git >> credentials documentation (https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials), the Git Credential Manager still pops up. >> I simply close the pop up window, and then it seems to be getting the password from my credential manager. >> >> I removed it using git config --edit --system, but after every update, it pops out again. > > As per > https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials#Documentation/gitcredentials.txt-helper: > > 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 > non-expired password, no more helpers will be tried. > >> I wonder if some proper fix is there for this. > > Yes, from the same page: > > 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 the trick is to call `git config set --global --add credential.helper ''` I wonder if this is a bug in git for windows? PS C:\Users\Aditya\git> git config set --global --add credential.helper '' error: unknown option `add' usage: git config set [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--comment=<message>] [--all] [--value=<value>] [--fixed-value] <name> <value> Config file location --[no-]global use global config file --[no-]system use system config file --[no-]local use repository config file --[no-]worktree use per-worktree config file -f, --[no-]file <file> use given config file --[no-]blob <blob-id> read config from given blob object Type -t, --[no-]type <type> value is given this type --bool value is "true" or "false" --int value is decimal number --bool-or-int value is --bool or --int --bool-or-str value is --bool or string --path value is a path (file or directory name) --expiry-date value is an expiry date Filter --[no-]all replace multi-valued config option with new value --[no-]value <pattern> show config with values matching the pattern --[no-]fixed-value use string equality when comparing values to value pattern Other --[no-]comment <value> human-readable comment string (# will be prepended as needed) --[no-]append add a new line without altering any existing values Or you meant by --append as per https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config I anyways manually added `helper = ` line and now it works well! Thanks a lot.
