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

Question

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

Answer 1

A similar error is 'credential-wincred' is not a git command

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wincred is for the project git-credential-winstore which is no longer maintained.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