git-credential-gnomekeyring is a git credential helper for Gnome Keyring.
GNOME keyring support is now included in git, so this project is deprecated.
For example, the official GNOME keyring support is available in the following Linux distributions.
There is a git package that includes all of contrib sources in /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/. Users who want to use git-credential-gnomekeyring should copy source from /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring to their working directory, then users can make and install it.
There is a package. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-credential-gnome-keyring/
Its git-core package includes git-credential-gnome-keyring binary then users can just use it.
$ git clone https://github.com/shugo/git-credential-gnomekeyring.git
$ cd git-credential-gnomekeyring/
$ make
$ cp git-credential-gnomekeyring /path/to/bin/
Add the following lines to ~/.gitconfig:
[credential]
helper = gnomekeyring
$ cd /path/to/your/repository/
$ git remote set-url origin https://<usename>@<host>/<path>
$ git push origin master
Password for 'https://[email protected]':
...
$ git push origin master
(Password never asked)
...
$
Note that you have to include the username in the URL.
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