Can I hold git credentials in environment variables?

Question

I\'d like to create a very simple shell script, which will ultimately be called by another application, that updates a local git repository:

#!/bin/bash

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Answer 1

You can set the username in the git config with:

git config credential.https://github.com.username $GIT_USER

Then you can set the GIT_ASKPASS environment variable to a script that will provide the password:

export GIT_ASKPASS=/path/to/git_env_password.sh

The contents of git_env_password.sh would be:

#!/bin/bash
echo $GIT_PASSWORD

N.B: This will store the username in the git config, so if you are not okay with that use another solution.

For more info consult the gitcredentials man page.