Currently, anyone who wants to store passwords with Git in a secure way
must build their own credential helpers from the files in
/usr/share/doc.  This leads users to use less secure ways of storing
passwords, such as using URLs with passwords in them or using the git
credential-store helper.

It would be great if the libsecret credential helper could be built in
its own package so that folks could easily use it.  The gnome-keyring
one is not required because it implements the libsecret API and so is
redundant.  If you wanted to create a generic package, you could also
add the netrc credential helper, although I believe that's no longer
required with recent versions of libcurl.

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Hi,

brian m. carlson wrote:

Thanks!  I agree.

Here's what should be a complete patch that provides a package called
"git-credential-libsecret" (in case we would like to support other
credential packages in the future), including a commit message.  It
applies to the debian-sid branch of the upstream repo and the package.
I've done a test build and install and verified that a clone works as
expected.

Brian’s patch looks good to me. Jonathan, is there any obstacle to merging?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946879#21

Hello

I'm very interested in this feature too.

Is there something I can do to help?

Regards