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Git Credential Manager (User)

GitHub · Git.GCM

Secure, cross-platform Git credential storage with authentication to GitHub, Azure Repos, and other popular Git hosting services.

Git Credential Manager (GCM) is a secure Git credential helper built on .NET that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It aims to provide a consistent and secure authentication experience, including multi-factor auth, to every major source control hosting service and platform. GCM supports (in alphabetical order) Azure DevOps, Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server), Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab. Compare to Git's built-in credential helpers (Windows: wincred, macOS: osxkeychain, Linux: gnome-keyring/libsecret), which provide single-factor authentication support for username/password only. GCM replaces both the .NET Framework-based Git Credential Manager for Windows and the Java-based Git Credential Manager for Mac and Linux.

winget install --id Git.GCM --exact --source winget

Latest 2.8.0

Release Notes

Announcements: Note This is planned to be the last release major release that supports Windows 7 and 8.x. We will be moving off of .NET Framework to .NET (Core) on Windows this year. Changes:

  • Workload Identity Federation for Azure Repos (#2297)
  • Git config caching to reduce git process calls
    • #2268
    • #2296
    • #2298
  • Dark theme support for OAuth authentication response pages (#2325)
  • Allow installing on Azure Linux (#2269)
  • Fix GPG ID lookup for .gpg-id in subdirectories (#2274)
  • Fix CS0121 string.Split call ambiguity with .NET 8.0 (#2287)
  • Fix SYSLIB0057 warning for X509Certificate2Collection.Import (#2326)
  • Fix several small bugs (#2303)
  • Migrate to .NET 10 (Mac/Linux) and adopt Central Package Management (#2313)
  • Bump Tmds.DBus.Protocol from 0.16.0 to 0.21.3 (#2316)
  • Azure Pipelines: specify pool.hostArchitecture correctly (#2323)
  • Documentation updates
    • #2283
    • #2299
  • Actions dependency updates
    • #2242
    • #2271
    • #2272
    • #2282
    • #2301
    • #2315

Installer types: inno , zip

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Details

Homepage
https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager
License
MIT
Publisher
GitHub
Support
https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager/issues
Copyright
Copyright (c) GitHub, Inc. and contributors
Moniker
gcm

Tags

aadauthenticationazure-devopsazure-reposbitbucketcredentialcross-platformgitgithubgitlab

Older versions (3)

2.7.3
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