Git: Any way to set default login credentials?

Question

I\'m using terminal for mac and running the line

git push origin master

It asks me for my github.com username and password every time,
is t

Answer 1

If on OSX, you should be able to use the osxkeychain helper. You can check to see if you already have it installed by typing:

git credential-osxkeychain

If you get a message saying that's not a valid git command, you can install it by doing:

curl -s -O http://github-media-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/osx/git-credential-osxkeychain
chmod u+x git-credential-osxkeychain
sudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain `dirname \`which git\``

Then tell git to use it with:

git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

You will be asked to provide your credentials once more the next time you do a pull/push. From then on, git should remember your info.