Associate the SSH key with the remote repository Here is a walkthrough on putty gen for the above steps 2. (Only works if the commit program is capable of using certificates/private & public ssh keys) Ssh-keygen -t rsa #Press enter for all values NET Usernames and passwords.Open terminal to create ssh keys: cd ~ #Your home directory This will allow you to edit, save or delete. Then enter rundll32.exe keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr Windows Key + R – To Get the “Run” window up. This window is usually used for handling passwords in an automated way. If the username is already added and the above approach is not working, or not available to you, you can use the “run command” and open the key manager this way. Git does not automatically remember username and password, when the repository is using Windows Credentials for some reason. Now git should remember your username and password, for that repository anyways. Depending on whether you have already downloaded the repo before. That’s it! Now git should use these credentials by default. Make sure you remember to add “git:” to the start of the url. Go to the Windows Credential manager, either by searching for it in Start: git config -global credential.helper managerĪnd if you want a complete sanity check, you can unset it first via: git config -global -unset credential.helper Manually set the credentials in the Windows Credential Manager Run the following command to set the config on a global level. If it is not set, or you want to make sure it is. User.name=André Snede Set credential helper You are looking for the credential.helper which should be equal to manager, eg. You can check this by running the following command in CMD or Powershell: git config -list If you are using Git on Windows, you should store your credentials in the Windows Credentials manager, so they are properly encrypted and protected.

Make sure that you are using Windows Credentials manager But git kept asking me to enter credentials for every operation against the repository origin and it was making me crazy that it was not remembering my credentials.

In this case, since I am not an employee in the company, I was given a PAT. Usually, the repositories are stored on AzureDevops and use Windows Authentication as default, with PAT (Personal Access Token) as a fallback.

I was having issues, where Git would not remember my credentials for some repositories on Windows. Git does not remember username and password…!

Avoid entering password git on mac