How to make Egit remember password and username?

Question

I\'m working onn a project in Eclipse hosted on Github. Everytime I want to push, a dialog pops up asking for username and password. Anybody know how to save these so I don\

Answer 1

Secure Storage is your direct provider of credentials.

So, go to:

• Window->Preferences->General->Network
• Change Provider to "Direct"

This should really be the default since Secure Storage is the default provider in Eclipse.

You can also change the git preferences to not pop up confirmation dialogs and the overall result will be a very fast workflow