git credential-cache is not a git command

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I followed these instructions to the letter  including the part about password caching  It seems like the instructions are wrong  because every time I git push origin master I get this error   git   credential-cache  is not a git command  See  get --help         at which point I am forced to enter my username and password  After doing so  I am presented with the same error message again  followed by the output from git push   Here is the contents of my  gitconfig file    user      name   myusername     email   myusername myemaildomain com  credential      helper   cache   To be clear  after I installed Git and ran Git Bash  here is exactly what I typed   git config --global user name  myusername  git config --global user email  myusername myemaildomain com  git config --global credential helper cache   Please help  This is so frustrating

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For the sake of others who come on this issue, I had this same problem in Ubuntu (namely that my passwords weren't caching, despite having set the option correctly, and getting the error git: 'credential-cache' is not a git command.), until I found out that this feature is only available in Git 1.7.9 and above.

Being on an older distribution of Ubuntu (Natty; I'm a stubborn Gnome 2 user) the version in the repo was git version 1.7.4.1. I used the following PPA to upgrade: https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa

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I fixed this issue by removing the credential section from the config of specific project    Just typed  git config -e Inside the editor I removed the whole section  credential  helper   cache    This removed the annoying message     git   credential-cache  is not a git command  See  git --help

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A similar error is  credential-wincred  is not a git command The accepted and popular answers are now out of date     wincred is for the project git-credential-winstore which is no longer maintained  It was replaced by Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows maintained by Microsoft open source   Download the release as zip file from link above and extract contents to  cygwin usr libexec git-core   or  cygwin64 usr libexec git-core as it may be  Then enable it   by setting the global  gitconfig  - execute  git config --global credential helper manager  How to use  No further config is needed  It works  automatically  when credentials are needed  For example  when pushing to Azure DevOps  it opens a window and initializes an oauth2 flow to get your token   ref   https   github com babun babun issues 318  https   github com Microsoft Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows installation-in-an-msys2-environment

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I faced this problem while using AptanaStudio3 on windows7  This helped me   git config --global credential helper wincred   Code taken from here

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First run git config --global credential helper wincred  Then go to  CONTROL PANEL CREDENTIAL MANAGER WINDOWS CREDENTIAL GENERIC CREDENTIAL  then click in add a credential in Internet or network address   add git https    username  github com  User   name   Password   Password

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From a blog I found    This  git-credential-cache  doesn   t work for Windows systems as git-credential-cache communicates through a Unix socket    Git for Windows  Since msysgit has been superseded by Git for Windows  using Git for Windows is now the easiest option  Some versions of the Git for Windows installer  e g  2 7 4  have a checkbox during the install to enable the Git Credential Manager  Here is a screenshot      Still using msysgit  For msysgit versions 1 8 1 and above  The wincred helper was added in msysgit 1 8 1  Use it as follows   git config --global credential helper wincred   For msysgit versions older than 1 8 1  First  download git-credential-winstore and install it in your git bin directory   Next  make sure that the directory containing git cmd is in your Path environment variable  The default directory for this is C  Program Files  x86  Git cmd on a 64-bit system or C  Program Files Git cmd on a 32-bit system  An easy way to test this is to launch a command prompt and type git  If you don t get a list of git commands  then it s not set up correctly   Finally  launch a command prompt and type   git config --global credential helper winstore   Or you can edit your  gitconfig file manually    credential      helper   winstore   Once you ve done this  you can manage your git credentials through Windows Credential Manager which you can pull up via the Windows Control Panel

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There is now a much easier way to setup Git password caching by double clicking a small exe on Windows  The program is still based on git-credential-winstore mentioned by the top voted answer  although the project has been moved from GitHub to http   gitcredentialstore codeplex com   You can download the exe  and a binary for Mac  from this blog post  https   github com blog 1104-credential-caching-for-wrist-friendly-git-usage

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For the sake of others having this issue - I landed here because I tried to get cute with how I set up a new github repository  but per the setup page credential helper doesn t work unless you clone a repository    Tip  The credential helper only works when you clone an HTTPS repository URL  If you use the SSH repository URL instead  SSH keys are used for authentication  This guide offers help generating and using an SSH key pair

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We had the same issue with our Azure DevOps repositories after our domain changed  i e  from  xy com to  xyz com  To fix this issue  we generated a fresh personal access token with the following permissions   Code  read  amp  write Packaging  read  Then we opened the Windows Credential Manager  added a new generic windows credential with the following details   Internet or network address   git  projectname  dev azure com  projectname   - alternatively you should use your git repository name here  User name   Personal Access Token  Password   The generated Personal Access Token   Afterwards all our git operations were working again  Hope this helps someone else

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First find the version you are using for GIT  using this command   git --version if you have a newer version than 1 7 10  Then simply use this this command  Windows  git config --global credential helper wincred  MAC git config --global credential helper osxkeychain  Reference

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I realize I m a little late to the conversation  but I encountered the exact same issue In my git config I had two entries credentials     In my  gitconfig file   credential  helper   cached  credentials  helper   wincred   The Fix  Changed my  gitconfig file to the settings below    credential  helper   wincred  credentials  helper   wincred

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Looks like git now comes with wincred out-of-the-box on Windows  msysgit    git config --global credential helper wincred   Reference  https   github com msysgit git commit e2770979fec968a25ac21e34f9082bc17a71a780

[git] git: 'credential-cache' is not a git command

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