From cd1002f84ef6e934374d0b4546b4d095b754f004 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nhkeni Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:05:23 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] DEVEL: add directions for a Linux credential helper --- DEVEL/Developer.txt | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/DEVEL/Developer.txt b/DEVEL/Developer.txt index 99846d8c3..043d7e409 100644 --- a/DEVEL/Developer.txt +++ b/DEVEL/Developer.txt @@ -66,10 +66,16 @@ A. If you have never set up git on this machine before: git config --global user.email USER@EXAMPLE.COM You probably want to set up a credential cache. macOS (10 - 12): - git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain + git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain Windows: - git config --global credential.helper store -XXX linux + git config --global credential.helper store + Linux: + (This may vary by distribution.) + cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credentail/libsecret + sudo apt-get install libglib-2.0-dev libsecret-1-dev + sudo make + git config --global credential.helper `pwd`/git-credential-libsecret + B. Specify the prefix for variable substitution: (This assumes you are not a member of DevTeam or any variant's development team. If you are, this may be wrong. Look for more specific documentation.