git-credential-gopass

git-credential-gopass

This command allows you to cache your git-credentials with gopass.

Pre-Installation Steps

If you want to use this helper, you should know, have installed and configured the password manager Gopass.

You may also check if the helper is already installed.

$ git help -a | grep credential-
   credential-cache     Helper to temporarily store passwords in memory
   credential-store     Helper to store credentials on disk
   credential-gopass

After a successful installation and setting up in git you might find a line with credential-gopass.

Installation Steps

Depending on your operating system, you can either download a pre-built binary, or install from source. If you have a working Go development environment, we recommend building from source.

Alternative: Download

Find the appropriate package from the releases for your system and download it. Unpack the binary from the archive file. Move it to one of the locations listed in your $PATH.

Alternatively, use the installable version for your packet manager.

Alternative: Building From Source

If you have Go already installed, you can use go install to automatically download the latest version:

go install  github.com/gopasspw/git-credential-gopass@latest

Set Git Credential Helper

If git-credential-gopass is in your $PATH, you can now configure git.

git config --global credential.helper gopass

or

git-credential-gopass configure --<global|local|system>

For further git scoping details show up the documentation of git credentials.

Option --store

You can save the credentials in a team store to share or manage a functional user for CI. Or just because you want it to.

git config credential.helper "gopass --store=ci-team"

git-credential-gopass configure --local --store=ci-team

This puts the value in front of the Gopass search path.