git-auth

A more integrated credential manager for git. It is simple right now but the goal is to remove the need to think about credentials separately from git itself. Just go use git and if credentials are needed you will be prompted as required.

git-auth supports multiple accounts and will remember which accounts are associated with which remotes. Just push, pull, clone, etc. and the rest will be taken care of.

Installation

There are no distro-specific packages (yet hopefully).

Cargo

git-auth is available through cargo. To install simply run:

cargo install git-auth

Assuming your path is setup for cargo installed binaries the command git-auth should now be available!

Build from source

1. Install rust toolchain (rustup is simple but however you would like)
2. Clone the repo and enter

   git clone https://github.com/CamLovell/git-auth
   cd git-auth
   

3. Build

   cargo build --release
   

You will now find the binary at target/release/git-auth

[!TIP] You can combine the build and setup steps by running cargo run --release -- init (Note the space before init!)

Usage

The goal is to be as simple as possible, once installed there is only one manual step:

git-auth init

If you built from source and are in the repository root the command will be something like:

./target/release/git-auth init

(Or refer to the tip above!)

Now just got about your work! When git needs permissions for some remote you will be prompted accordingly, no need to think about credentials anymore.

If you want to access git-auth the initialisation will setup an alias for you to integrate better with git itself. Use git auth (yes, with the space) to access git-auth directly.

I'll add more detail here soon, run git auth -h for more info.

Limitations

Very early stages, right now it only supports github over https. Planning to extend this over time.