PortableGit credential.helper=helper-selector override

[viceice]

Hi I'm using the PortableGit version installed via scoop. Every time i update git, the global helper is reset to helper-selector at <git-dir>/etc/gitconfig, which is expected.

So i've added this to my ~/.gitconfig and expect that this will override the global config:

[credential]
  helper = manager-core

But it won't, so is this expected with the portable version?

So my workaround for now is to run git config --system credential.helper manager-core after git update. 😕

[rimrul]

[credential]
helper = helper-selector

I assume that's a typo and you meant manager-core.

You can indeed override the system setting, but it's slightly more complicated.

From gitcredentials(7):

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 password, no more helpers will be tried.

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 this should work:

[credential] 	
    helper = ""
    helper = manager-core

[viceice]

yes, there was a type, fixed it. this seems to work too

[credential] 	
    helper =
    helper = manager-core

[viceice]

Note: From powershell you need to call

git config --global --replace-all credential.helper '""'
git config --global --add credential.helper manager-core