Git Configuration

git

Configuration

git config --global user.name 'your name'
git config --global user.email 'your email'
git config --global core.editor vim

The above configuration writes to ~/.gitconfig.

Credential Helper

SSH

Use a key pair and bypass the need of a credential helper.

ssh-keygen

By default, it generates a key pair ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. If it does not already exist, generate a new pair and upload the public key to the git server.

Store

git config --global credential.helper store

Note this stores secrets in plain text in ~/.git-credentials. The security solely depends on the permissions of the user's home directory. If this is set as the credential helper, use access tokens instead of password to access the git server.

Gnome keyring

sudo apt-get -q -y install libgnome-keyring-dev
cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring/
sudo make
cd
# --system as configured in /etc/gitconfig
sudo git config --system credential.helper \
        /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring/git-credential-gnome-keyring