How have I saved Gitlab username and password in Visual Studio Code, Windows?

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Make sure to use the GCMfW: Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows:

git config --global credential.helper manager

Then try again: that should cache your username / password, provided you are using an HTTPS (https://...) URL, not an SSH one.

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Updated on July 27, 2022

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  • GWorking
    GWorking over 1 year

    This is a strange question, but I cannot find how I did this:

    I have three computers, all of them with visual studio code and an account in gitlab. In two of them, my operation has been

    git clone ___.git
    cd folder
    git init
    git remote add origin ___.git
    

    And then, every time I push,... I have to enter my id and pass.

    But in my first computer, I did something that I don't need to enter the id and pass anymore, it just pushes without hassle.

    Then, I thought I must have done something like this

    https://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-store

    But when I look for .gitconfig, which I find in the /Users folder, there I only have my user.name (which is not the one of gitlab), the email (this one is the gitlab email) but no password entry. And I cannot find any other .gitconfig files anywhere. For sure I didn't set up any SSH key.

    So here the question, what did I do?

  • GWorking
    GWorking almost 5 years
    But I didn't use this on my first computer. How can I know whether I have the id and pass stored somewhere?
  • VonC
    VonC almost 5 years
    It is normally set by default. Try it on your second computer, to see if it makes a difference.
  • GWorking
    GWorking almost 5 years
    Yes, I haven't tried but definitively it sounds as if this had to be the case, as I read it here edwardthomson.com/blog/…