Saving your login information for Git

I hate having to put in my password every time I want to push/pull from git so I like to work around it and save it in my keyring. You should have already installed Git (it’s one of the first things I do, outlined here.)

  1. sudo apt-get install libgnome-keyring-dev
  2. sudo make --directory=/usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring/
  3. git config --global credential.helper /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring/git-credential-gnome-keyring
 
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