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Sep 2, 2022 at 9:31 comment added Serdar Samancıoğlu None of the solutions worked for me. I hate git.
Sep 4, 2021 at 10:26 review Suggested edits
Sep 5, 2021 at 14:26
Jul 3, 2021 at 10:02 comment added zezba9000 This helped but I also had to re-install git to fit my issue on Windows. Something got wacked out in creds stuff
Jun 20, 2020 at 9:12 history edited Community Bot
Commonmark migration
S Dec 16, 2019 at 14:57 history suggested Pierre H. CC BY-SA 4.0
update doc link from Win7 (broken link) to Win10
Dec 16, 2019 at 12:20 review Suggested edits
S Dec 16, 2019 at 14:57
Sep 23, 2019 at 20:59 comment added Божидар Йовчев please update your comment to point out that if we are using Windows and if the commands dont seem to work we need to open a GitBash as Administrator and run them there, this is how I got them to work
Jan 31, 2019 at 5:23 comment added sidtagirisa git config --system --unset credential.helper helped me on mac
Jun 18, 2018 at 13:31 comment added ribamar killing the process still leaves traces. at least in 1.9.1. be careful.
Jan 5, 2018 at 7:01 comment added Eldhose Abraham in windows 10 Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Credential Manager . There could be a Generic Credential for GitHub. You can update the user name and password there.
Dec 27, 2017 at 15:44 comment added Display name On a windows box just do this: git config --global credential.helper manager. No need for anything else.
Jul 21, 2017 at 16:12 history edited Peter Mortensen CC BY-SA 3.0
Active reading.
Jan 9, 2017 at 7:04 vote accept balexandre
Apr 5, 2020 at 0:12
Jan 9, 2017 at 7:00 vote accept balexandre
Jan 9, 2017 at 7:00
Dec 25, 2016 at 2:25 history edited David Ferenczy Rogožan CC BY-SA 3.0
Corrected "Got" to "Git"
Oct 21, 2016 at 14:59 history edited patthoyts CC BY-SA 3.0
Updated with details of the manager helper which is now preferred on Windows.
Sep 7, 2016 at 14:29 comment added dsuess "helper=wincred" was the hint. It was not listed in the git online book.
Jun 8, 2016 at 9:32 comment added DanielH Under Windows 8/10 the detailed User Account Settings are located under the "classic" Controll Panel, not the "Settings" App (modern UI). Just to avoid confusion.
Apr 21, 2016 at 16:34 comment added Jeff Under windows 8.1 the "Windows Credentials" was under Generic Credentials and git:gitlab.com or your git server of choice.
Jan 19, 2016 at 21:56 comment added patthoyts The git-credential-cache helper stores things in current memory. Something might end up in the system pagefile but it is no more readable that it was while the process was running.
Jan 19, 2016 at 13:40 comment added Ufos Doesn't killing the process leave any traces somewhere, so that the password could be still accessed? According to git manual they are stored in "plain text".
Dec 9, 2015 at 14:41 history edited Ian Kemp - SO dead by AI greed CC BY-SA 3.0
blockquoted the win7 help text to draw attention to it
Apr 30, 2015 at 13:04 comment added Steve Pitchers I found the Windows Credential control panel at Control Panel\User Accounts\Credential Manager under Windows 7
S Feb 24, 2015 at 13:48 history suggested Community Bot CC BY-SA 3.0
adding details on accessing windows credentials store control panel
Feb 24, 2015 at 13:27 review Suggested edits
S Feb 24, 2015 at 13:48
Aug 4, 2014 at 9:22 comment added Michiel van Oosterhout Is this the winstore helper you mentioned? gitcredentialstore.codeplex.com
Aug 22, 2013 at 11:41 history edited patthoyts CC BY-SA 3.0
Fixed configuration option name as pointed out by @jszakmeister
Mar 13, 2013 at 10:38 history answered patthoyts CC BY-SA 3.0
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