Update instructions for Windows GCM - #1724
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[Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows](https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows) was archived on 2020 Sep 30 and it is no longer being maintained. > The cross-platform [Git Credential Manager Core (GCM Core)](https://aka.ms/gcmcore) is the official replacement.
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There's a GitHub Blog about the Git Credential Manager that explains all the changes. 😉 We may need to check the whole credentials.asc file, and update it? But that should be tracked in its own issue probably. 😄 |
Yes! That blog post is a nice historiographic explanation of the GCM module. It contains much more than the specific technical details needed to get using GCM. I distilled the info from my own findings using trial-and-error to successfully implement GCM in both Linux (WSL2) and Windows.
When I originally submitted the PR, I reviewed the chapter and it seemed up-to-date except this part. But I will take another look. |
Thank you for checking it over! Let us know what you find! |
| This is similar to the "`osxkeychain`" helper described above, but uses the Windows Credential Store to control sensitive information. | ||
| It can be found at https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows[]. | ||
| * If you're using Windows, you can enable the *Git Credential Manager* feature when installing https://gitforwindows.org/[Git for Windows] or separately install https://github.com/GitCredentialManager/git-credential-manager/releases/latest[the latest GCM] as a standalone service. | ||
| This is similar to the "`osxkeychain`" helper described above, but uses the Windows Credential Store to control sensitive information. It can also serve credentials to WSL1 or WSL2. See https://github.com/GitCredentialManager/git-credential-manager#windows[GCM Install Instructions] for more information. |
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Mind splitting this into two lines? Diffs are much easier to parse if it's one sentence per line.
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I have continued this PR in #1794 |
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Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows was archived on 2020 Sep 30 and it is no longer being maintained.
Therefore, I have updated the documentation to reflect this fact and recommend instead that readers rely on Git Credential Manager Core (GCM Core).
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#736
#583