A git Credential Helper that supports multi accounts + encryption
This project provides a simple bash implementation of git credential helper, it support multiple accounts of the same URL. For example if you have two different github.com accounts, one is used for your main work while the other is your personal github account. (e.g. https://github.com/company-name/some-repo https://github.com/personal/repo).
It also provides a basic GnuPG encryption of the stored credentials.
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/dvdlevanon/git-enhanced-credential-helper.git
Run the install-credential-helper.sh script to install the new credential helper.
Encryption is enabled by passing the --secure parameter as follow:
./install-credential-helper.sh --secure
When encryption is enabled, you SHOULD put a .password file near the enhanced-credential-helper.sh script. This file should contain a secure password for encryption/decryption of the credential files.
The credential files would be stored by default under the store folder near the enhanced-credential-helper.sh script. You may change it by passing --store-dir to the installer script as follow:
./install-credential-helper.sh --store-dir /path/to/store/dir
Of course you may pass both parameters like:
./install-credential-helper.sh --store-dir /path/to/store/dir --secure
If you want to go back to the old credential helper, you may run the following script:
./restore-credential-helper.sh
This would instruct git to use the old credential helper
A hidden file called .old-credential.helper is created upon installation which allows us to restore easily and safely.
Once you install the new credential helper, just try to push/pull from a remote repository and you'll see the credentials are saved encrypted or unencrypted depending on the installation options.
You may try to pull from different account in the same host name (e.g. github.com)
David Levanon - [email protected]