Use gnome-keyring (and others) with git

06 May 2018

Steps on how to use libsecret to store git-login-data.
libsecret supports implementations of XDG Secret Service API such as the gnome-keyring.

1. install libsecret dev libs:

     ~ % sudo apt-get install libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev
   

2. build the credential manager

     ~ % cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret
     libsecret % sudo make
   

3. let git know what you have prepared:

     ~ % git config --global credential.helper /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret
   

Note: needs at least git 2.11

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Tags:  git ,  Debian