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Background: We have a local Gitea server in the office. I just started using it with Git Credential Manager Core enabled. Surprisingly (to me), I have to retype my password every time I want to fetch or push (over https).

After reading a bit in the GCM Core documentation and finding a pull request asking for Gitea support, it seems to me that this is because Gitea support is simply not implemented.

Now, here's where my question arises: I would have thought that https works the same no matter which service one is connecting to. Why does it matter if I am trying to push to Gitea or Github or some other service if all the credential manager has to do is safely store my credentials for later?

After some testing I discovered that this happens even after

git config credential.helper cache

so it's not even an issue with GCM Core. Why doesn't Git just cache the info?

Oh, I'm using Git for Windows (on Windows 10), if that matters.

schtandard
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  • What if you set `credential.helper=manager`? (Windows - which is your OS?) – Christoph Oct 06 '20 at 16:15
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    Same thing. I'm also on Windows. Since `manager` is deprecated, I started out with `manager-core`. – schtandard Oct 06 '20 at 16:29
  • Not sure what you mean by "reference". Do you mean for the deprecation? Then yes, the note on that site as well as in the [GCM Core faq](https://github.com/microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core/blob/master/docs/faq.md#q-does-this-mean-gcm-for-windows-net-framework-based-is-deprecated). However, the behavior is the same, so it doesn't really matter, I think. – schtandard Oct 06 '20 at 16:35
  • Are you saying that this is not normal, you are also using a Gitea remote and do not experience this? (My Git is up to date.) – schtandard Oct 06 '20 at 18:38
  • I do not use Gitea, but I do use the old credential "manager". To me this looks odd, but I don't feel like I can solve this issue... – Christoph Oct 06 '20 at 18:59
  • Try using the `wincred` credential helper. It's less intimate with the various services it uses, so it's more likely to just work. – bk2204 Oct 06 '20 at 22:26

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