Always ask for password in Git Bash Windows

Question

I wonder if there’s a way my Git Bash can always ask for my password on Windows. I don’t want it to record for anything.

Answer 1

The setting you need to change is the credential.helper, as you are in Windows it should be as manager, you can check by running the console command

git config --list

Git has a running process that stores your credentials in memory (cache) and dristribui them on demand. You can disable the use of Git credential memory by using

git config --global --unset credential.helper

This may not work if it is set in a configuration file some configuration that changes every time you start the system that has this setting, in this case an output is to set something in the config for credential.helper, you can use the definition cache with the command

git config credential.helper cache

By default it stores your password for 5 me, then asks again, but you can set it up for more or less time using the timeout attribute with the time in seconds, ex for 2 minutes:

git config credential.helper 'cache --timeout=120'

Sources:

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials

https://git-scm.com/book/pt-br/v2/Git-Tools-Credential-Storage

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15381198/remove-credentials-from-git

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-cache

Answer 2

Good afternoon, recommend that you go to do tes git command no bash with HTTPS (https://...), Then you’ll always ask for your credentials.