Update: This is no longer necessary, check out the update here.

In my last post (PRO-TIP: Recursively updating all git repositories in a directory) I made mention of using Git’s new credential caching to improve your Git experience.

A couple things of note:

• The API for credential management in Git is fairly newish (as of 1.7.9) so you’ll a fairly newish Git to make use of it.

• This doesn’t work for Windows systems as git-credential-cache communicates through a Unix socket. Windows users can find joy here at https://github.com/anurse/git-credential-winstore (specifically for the download the joy is located at https://github.com/anurse/git-credential-winstore/downloads). Just make sure that the binary is in your path (which is likely C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\libexec\git-core if you’ve installed msysgit and didn’t mess with the defaults). The integration is with Windows Credential Manager which you can pull up via the Windows Control Panel.

Once you’ve got it installed, from a command prompt:

git config --global credential.helper winstore

Or you can edit your .gitconfig manually:

[credential]
     helper = winstore