pass-git-credential-helper

Overview

git credential helper that gets the password from a pass storage

pass uses gpg under the hood

Only the password retrieval is supported, i.e, the get operation.

store, erase are not supported

Example usage

Configure git to use the helper for a specific url like https://github.com

[credential "https://github.com"]
       username = clidev
       helper = /usr/local/bin/pass-git-credential-helper

It will look for a password named gitlab.com/clidev

Only the hostname is used (not the path)

You can override the user by adding the -u option like in the following:

[credential "https://github.com"]
       username = clidev
       helper = /usr/local/bin/pass-git-credential-helper -u secdev

It will look for a password named gitlab.com/secdev

Or you can set the password name entirely by using the -p option:

[credential "https://github.com"]
       username = clidev
       helper = /usr/local/bin/pass-git-credential-helper -p secdev

It will look for a password named secdev

Limitations

Since the store command is not supported currently an error message is displayed to stderr about that

Error: Unsupported operation [store]