git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager

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Secure, cross-platform Git credential storage with authentication to GitHub, Azure Repos, and other popular Git hosting services.

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Forks: 2.9k
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 140
Avg merge: 7d 1h
Merged PRs (30d): 14

Dominant language: C#
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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140 open issues indexed

Add option/setting to suppress `erase` operation Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2435 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 6, 2026
GCM does not open web browser with oauth flow for oauth-enabled provider on macOS Open

auth-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2426 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 29, 2026
I should please open an issue Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2424 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2026
LinuxSessionManager does not check for CODESPACES in addition to REMOTE_CONTAINERS Open

auth-issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2411 · Opened Aug 16, 2026
Allow MSAL token cache to use GCM's collection of secure storage options Open

auth:entra enhancement platform:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2360 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2026
Automatically avoid GUI prompts when run in remote terminal Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2348 · 1 comment · Opened May 19, 2026
Azure Repos: Automatically fall back to OAuth tokens when PAT creation is blocked by org policy Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2344 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2026
Tool requires dotnet v8 while v10 is installed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2340 · 4 comments · Opened May 10, 2026
Ubuntu keyring corruption Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2339 · Opened May 7, 2026
Authentication flow repeated on each git action Open

auth-issue host:gitlab platform:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2319 · 12 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2026
Support headless login Open

auth-issue host:gitlab platform:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2317 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 14, 2026
postinstall: support installation by a service user that isn't the end user Open

enhancement installation platform:osx

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2302 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Mar 29, 2026
Networking failure Open

auth-issue network platform:linux

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2295 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 17, 2026
Multiple 'GitHub Sign in' windows appear with version 2.7.3 Open

host:github

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2289 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Multiple Authentication Popups with Azure DevOps OAuth Credential Type Open

auth-issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2288 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Being spammed by the git credential manager Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2280 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Almalinux support in install script Open

good-first-issue installation platform:linux

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2275 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 27, 2026
GitLab: Ignore username from Git credential input when looking up and generating credentials Open

auth-issue host:gitlab

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2270 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 20, 2026
tests failed on clean install Open

platform:linux

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2227 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 29, 2025
GCM get/store in WSL takes several minutes during standard git operations (git pull/push) Open

platform:windows platform:wsl

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2215 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 12, 2025
git-credential-manager prompting to auth with GitHub when running git git fetch Open

auth-issue host:github platform:windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2194 · 11 comments · Opened Nov 26, 2025
Git Credential Manager is flushed out if user tries to access unauthorized repo Open

auth-issue host:github platform:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2095 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2025
Constantly being asked to authenticate keychain on MacOS against Azure Devops Open

auth-issue host:azure-repos platform:osx

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2079 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 16, 2025
Credential protocol enhancement: OAuth token expiration and refresh tokens Open

enhancement gcm3.0

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2059 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Sep 26, 2025
Credential protocol enhancement: Credential types Open

enhancement gcm3.0

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2058 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 26, 2025
Credential protocol enhancement: Retry mechanism and stateful operations Open

enhancement gcm3.0

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2057 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 26, 2025
Support msal broker on Mac and Linux (WSL) Open

auth:entra enhancement platform:linux platform:osx

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2043 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2025
Extend GCM OAuth/WAM Default Beyond Dev Box to All Entra ID–Joined Environments Open

auth:entra entra:broker platform:windows

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2037 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 11, 2025
Support for headless use of SecretService in Linux environments Open

enhancement platform:linux

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2035 · Opened Sep 9, 2025
.deb package signed with a deprecated SHA1 algorithm Open

engineering platform:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2028 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 2, 2025
Skip configure step post-install Open

enhancement platform:osx

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2010 · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Skip confirmation for GCM_MSAUTH_USEDEFAULTACCOUNT Open

auth:entra enhancement entra:broker platform:windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#2009 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2025
Enable OAuth device authorization for GitLab Open

auth:oauth enhancement host:gitlab

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1993 · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 23, 2025
GCM not Persisting new Bitbucket Cloud API Tokens (for git basic auth) Open

auth-issue host:bitbucket

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1991 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 15, 2025
git credential manager does not support security key Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1984 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 7, 2025
Failed to install on MacOS 26 Open

platform:osx

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1982 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 1, 2025
Bitbucket user consent shown as Sourcetree Open

host:bitbucket

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1920 · Opened May 14, 2025
Can't install on MacOS Open

auth-issue platform:osx

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1914 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 6, 2025
GCM on VS Code remote SSH linux box Open

auth-issue platform:linux

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1908 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 29, 2025
Gitlab Self-Hosted git client OAuth The string binding is invalid Open

auth-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1895 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 14, 2025
First `git push` fails with GCM if multiple credentials exist; second push succeeds Open

host:gitlab platform:windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1888 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 7, 2025
read:org scope is not requested making tokens unusable for GitHub CLI Open

auth-issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1882 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2025
support .NET 9 or enable roll-forward Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1876 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 26, 2025
Support Workload Identity Federation for Azure DevOps Open

enhancement host:azure-repos

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1843 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 23, 2025
Allow copying signin link for GitLab Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1825 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 7, 2025
Redundant authentication dialog shown for TFS/git (http) Open

auth-issue host:azure-repos platform:windows

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1824 · Opened Feb 7, 2025
git-credential-manager not using oauth Open

auth-issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1821 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 4, 2025
Bug: GCM Misidentifies Docker Containers Running on WSL2 Due to /proc/version Open

platform:wsl

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1813 · 12 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 27, 2025
I have Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS distro on my WSL2 (hosted on my Windows 11 23H2 x64 Pro). Open

platform:wsl

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1810 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2025
GitLab authentication no longer working Open

auth-issue host:gitlab

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1796 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2024

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